I have relied a lot on the architecture of the declarative sentence, including for the purpose of parsimoniously accounting for the history of media, broadly from orality to literacy to whatever we have now—electronic? Digital? Digital orality? That’s the test I want to put declarativity to now—to offer a way of thinking our current media conditions, in particular in the context of those, like Andrey Mir, supportive of the “digital orality” concept, to which I’d like to offer an alternative. It’s easy enough to see the plausibility of seeing digital orality as the defining media condition of our time, as it reflects the dominance of social media, which prioritizes and incentivizes “polarization,” with the demolition of traditional media ‘gatekeepers,” presumably still drawing upon conditions of literacy in order to slow down response time, force resentments to be worked through various filters, and so on. Social media retribalizes us, on this account. But this leaves the Stack out of account, and the entire order of intelligence, which operates beyond and to some extent through digital orality. It’s a consumerist approach to the question.
The Sentence as Metric
The Sentence as Metric
The Sentence as Metric
I have relied a lot on the architecture of the declarative sentence, including for the purpose of parsimoniously accounting for the history of media, broadly from orality to literacy to whatever we have now—electronic? Digital? Digital orality? That’s the test I want to put declarativity to now—to offer a way of thinking our current media conditions, in particular in the context of those, like Andrey Mir, supportive of the “digital orality” concept, to which I’d like to offer an alternative. It’s easy enough to see the plausibility of seeing digital orality as the defining media condition of our time, as it reflects the dominance of social media, which prioritizes and incentivizes “polarization,” with the demolition of traditional media ‘gatekeepers,” presumably still drawing upon conditions of literacy in order to slow down response time, force resentments to be worked through various filters, and so on. Social media retribalizes us, on this account. But this leaves the Stack out of account, and the entire order of intelligence, which operates beyond and to some extent through digital orality. It’s a consumerist approach to the question.