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Episode 18: Sascha Engel on “Breaking the Alphabet”

Feb 23, 2023

01:13:22

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The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan's Approach

02:31

Time Is Linear and Structured and How Can We Make It More Fluid Or?

02:24

Is the Human Nervous System Craving This Structure?

04:02

Introduction

2min

What's on the Page?

5min

The Gutenberg Galaxy, Marshall McLuhan's Approach

3min

Autocorrect, We'll Keep It All Under Its Watchful Gaze

4min

Is the Handwritten Latin Alphabet a Human Being?

2min

The Characteristics of Hieroglyphs

2min

What Is It to Be a Human Being?

6min

Is Iterated?

2min

Is There a Need for All Writers?

4min

10.

What Is DEIXIS?

4min

11.

Deexis

2min

12.

What Is Deexis?

5min

13.

Is the Human Nervous System Craving This Structure?

4min

14.

The Chair Is Only a Chair if I Behave to It

3min

15.

Unlearning the Gestures of Classification

3min

16.

Breaking the Structure of the Written Word

3min

17.

How to Inject Sound Into Environments and Change People's Behavior

4min

18.

The Anti-Terror Playbook

2min

19.

I'm Trying to Challenge the Alphabetical Implementation of Computing Machines

3min

20.

What Do You Think of Meme Culture?

3min

21.

The Anti-Alphabit - The Last Step

2min

22.

The Anti-Elfabit to Interstate Theory

2min

23.

Time Is Linear and Structured and How Can We Make It More Fluid Or?

2min

In this episode, Mike Gathers chats with Sascha Engel about the themes of his book, Breaking the Alphabet and the tyranny of the written word.

Breaking the Alphabet
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