Embodiment and Inscription
Embodiment and Inscription
Orality is generally consigned to the doorstep in histories of media: the prelude to the “extensions of man” but not one of the extensions itself. Memory in a culture that has not adopted writing must be described more carefully as a form of writing on other human minds. Studies of folk literature converge with studies of memory to suggest the properties of such a “writing on the mind” which addresses the characteristics of embodied human thought and turns its limitations into strategic devices of incorporation.
Keywords: embodiment, folk literature, Merleau-Ponty, mnemonics, plot
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