The Ecology of Perception – a conversation with David Abram
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Exploring the Influence of Writing Systems on Perception
The chapter delves into the impact of writing systems, specifically alphabets, on sensory experience and language. It contrasts different writing systems and how they relate to the natural world, emphasizing how alphabets tend to close off language from the broader, animate world, while other pictorial scripts maintain a connection to the more-than-human Earth.
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