TY  - BOOK
AU  - McMahon,Melanie
ED  - Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan),
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - The Violence of the Letter : : Toward a Theory of Writing / 
SN  - 9780472903238
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Ann Arbor, Michigan
PB  - University of Michigan Press
KW  - Writing
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - fast
KW  - Alphabet
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Open Access
N2  - The emergence of the alphabet in ancient Greece, usually heralded as the first step in the inexorable march toward reason and progress, in fact signaled the introduction of a chance technology that hijacked the future, with devastating consequences for humanity. By investigating an array of cultural artifacts, ranging from Kubrick's “2001: A Space Odyssey” to the Oracle at Delphi to Luther's challenge to the Church, this book demonstrates how the apparently benign emergence of writing made possible far-ranging systems of organized domination and unprecedented levels of violence. The Violence of the Letter considers how a twenty-six letter code changed the face of the world, and not always for the better
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/114062/
ER  -