The Case of Copious Callback
This weeks exploration of Ong’s Characteristics of Orally Based Thought and Expression – Redundant or ‘copious’
#aliterate
The main reason was that the agenda and the lunch menu lacked pictures.
FOMO, YOLO, and FOLO?
Continuing my exploration of Ong’s characteristics of an oral culture, “Aggregative rather than analytic”. Do friends have to be “best” or “forever”?
We are deep in “it”
Back to the exploration of Ong’s characteristics of an Oral Culture. Focusing on “Empathetic and Participatory Rather than Objectively Distanced
Governance and Orality
I’ve been digging into a thought for the past week starring out into the void wondering what to do next.
With Decentralized/Federated Social Media, I’m […]
54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level).
#orality #aliterate #PostLiterate
https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-statistics-2024-2025-where-we-are-now
He had to say "and other E.U. represented countries" because he doesn't know what other wine-making countries are part of the E.U.
We in Canada would love to see that, too.
A++ to Mango Mussolini for the grocer's apostrophe in his toot. Aliterate idiot.
#MangoMussolini #SeeFigureOne #SeeFigure1 #GrocersApostrophe #aliterate
Ong’s Oral Culture Recap
Where was I? I’ve forgotten where I was in reflecting on Ong’s Psychodynamics of Orality with our current culture. So this recap is partly for me as it is […]
After this Gulf of Mexico / "Gulf of America" / Gulf of Fragile Masculinity nonsense, I'm waiting to see what happens when someone tells Trump that there's a U.S. state with "Mexico" in its name.
#Mexico #NewMexico #GulfOfFragileMasculinity #GulfOfMexico #GulfOfAmerica #Trump #aliterate #ignorant #USPol #nonsense
Don't forget 7,300 VHS tapes of news clips where someone said something complimentary about DJT. They're all almost worn out, though.
Don’t get it. Won’t get it.
- https://whoisnick.com/dont-get-it-wont-get-it/
With what’s happened this week in the US, I’m going to focus in on the next characteristic of an oral culture that I think fits the bill. While moments like these have many more moving parts and are much more complex, perhaps there’s something in this one that might be relevant.
I’ve talked about this before, but let’s use it in terms of Ong this time. In his characteristics of an oral cultures he calls this:
Situational rather than abstract.
Oral cultures tend to use concepts in situational, operational frame of reference that are minimally abstract in the sense that they remain close to the human lifeworld
In other words, abstract generalisations go out the window. Inference and logic are illogical. An oral mind will stay rooted in the here and now and won’t even entertain the […]
You know what you can recall - https://whoisnick.com/you-know-what-you-can-recall/
Where was I in reviewing Ong’s characteristics of an Oral culture? I can’t recall.
A little searching ( clickity clickity )… here it is.
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash
For the most part, as you may have guessed, I’ve been arguing that we are returning to a mostly oral culture by saying we have the most of the characteristics. However, this is one where it doesn’t fully lock in for me […]
Had a chat this week with a friend who’s been feeling that movies lately are feeling “over the top”. Like actors are “always on”. Could be, we’ve passed “that line” ( you know the old folks one where you get it, but you don’t get it ). Then we had a good chat about the new need for grandiose, heavy, and bizarre stories.
Proficiently Literate? - https://whoisnick.com/proficiently-literate/
There’s literate and then there’s proficiently literate. This whole idea that we are tipping into the postliterate relies on the idea that we are all literate; just don’t seem to care; prefer other oral based media.
So are we?
Photo by Andrea De Santis on Unsplash
Into Literacy
For the purposes of my little thought experiment, let’s use 50% of a population as a tipping point: greater, […]
Non binary - https://whoisnick.com/non-binary/
Orality is fluid; so are we.
Last week I introduced Walter J. Ong and my first comparison with his characteristics of oral cultures. The power in the choice of a pronoun.
And this leads me to a perception of what could be a characteristic of a literate culture
Binary thought
McLuhan, Postman, Ong, and I’m sure others, have looked at the ecology of the written word and quickly seen its […]
Who’s Ong? - https://whoisnick.com/whos-ong/
Walter J. Ong: Orality and Literacy
I’ve already introduced you to McLuhan. Now, let’s introduce you to another figure that’s currently shaping my perspectives. Walter J. Ong.
How he influence the conversation of “Orality”? His work is foundational. While I still have to get into his more history-based works, his main focus was in a small pocket of time in human history, the […]
Indeed. Remember, he's the man who couldn't be bothered to read "his own" book, much less write it.
I can tell this is going to stick in the brain for a while.
Adds a bit to this idea - https://orality.substack.com/p/non-binary
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