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    We carved characters into stone and wood because the geography around us is already covered with it’s own scripts.

    We extended our memory into paper and silicon because there is already memory embedded in the natural landscape.

    ( edit / delete )  Mon, Feb 22, 2010  Permanent link
    Categories: language, literacy, memory, extension, landscape
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    AsylumSeaker     Mon, Feb 22, 2010  Permanent link
    [i]Because?[/i]

    It's an interesting parallel.. But I think the reasons behind the advent of recorded language are different to the passive recording of ambient processes.
    shiftctrlesc     Tue, Feb 23, 2010  Permanent link
    I am living on 75 acre farm for the winter. It's the first time that I have had any prolonged relationship to the marks we leave on the landscape. Everyone and everything leaves a trail. Even the wind and the sun can't hide their footprints here. You quickly learn to read those marks because they tell crucial stories about the entire environment that you are a part of.

    Looking down at my own bootprints crisscrossed with animal tracks, it seemed very obvious where the seed, the inspiration for us to carve our first pictograms must have come from.
     
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