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Mobilizing a Movement of the Mind

Aja Monet’s, Mobilizing a Movement of the Mind, contains a vital interpretation of the effect technology has had on humans. Aja isn’t aggressive, but she seems to be emotionally invested in explaining her ideas. The poet describes how technology has allowed for global communication, but has actually destroyed the previous notion of human interaction. Aja’s idea remind me of a sentence I’ve heard uttered many times before, technology has increased communication while defeating human interaction. This holds some truth because we can see that it is possible to communicate across continents, but as the availability of technology heightens, the need for verbal communication decreases. I also thought that Aja’s description about how a small device that can fit in our pockets has caused the human race to evolve into something much different, was very true.

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StClair Blog post week 1

For this week’s response I have chosen Walter Ong’s Orality and Literacy for my blog post. At the beginning of his work, Ong mentions that sound and time have a special relationship with each other. He explains this by saying “Sound exists only when it is going out of existence. It is not simply perishable but essentially evanescent, and it is sensed as evanescent. When I pronounce the word “permance,” by the time i get to the “-nence,” the “perma-” is gone, and has to be gone”(Ong, 65). The word “evanescent” means “soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence”. Therefore in the context that Ong is talking about, he is saying that with every sound we hear, it will eventually go away. Sounds are not always permanent and go out of our existence or memory. Ong also mentions that one can not stop and hold sound. He writes “If I stop the movement of sound, I have nothing- only silence, no sound at all. All sensation takes place in time, but no other sensory field totally resists a holding action, stabilization, in quite this way”(Ong, 65). Here Ong is saying that unlike the other human sensations, sound is the one we cannot put a hold on. We just have to let it come and go as freely as it can be. Overall, sound is important but it is only a privilege.