The Violence of the Letter : Toward a Theory of Writing
Co-Winner of the 2024 ACLA Renè Wellek Prize for Monograph The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating conse...
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University of Michigan Press
2023
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