Magic + Loss

Magic + Loss

The Enduring Legacy of Clubhouse’s Chatty Revolution

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Virginia Heffernan
Apr 05, 2022
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Arnold Lakhovsky, The Conversation (c. 1935). (Wiki photo)

Sight isolates, sound incorporates. This was the signature insight of Walter Ong, the tech philosopher who considered spoken language superior to written language and a greater stimulus to intimacy and imagination. A proud phonocentrist, Ong further believed that heroism lives almost exclusively …

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