by Micah Towery
Film and TV
Translation, Film, and the ESL Student
By Micah Towery
A new language is a bully. Learning a new language is not really learning a new way to communicate, but a new way to think.
A new language is a bully. Learning a new language is not really learning a new way to communicate, but a new way to think.
by Micah Towery
Poetry and Poetics
More about McLuhan and the Poetic Line
By Micah Towery
When McLuhan described linearity (I think he actually used the term lineality…not sure if there’s a difference? Spell check doesn’t recognize the latter, if that means anything!), I couldn’t help but think about the poetic line and the way it is changing. As print culture (and hence the divorce made by the phonetic alphabet) ends, we move from the line, back to the field, back to non-linear, acoustic space.
When McLuhan described linearity (I think he actually used the term lineality…not sure if there’s a difference? Spell check doesn’t recognize the latter, if that means anything!), I couldn’t help but think about the poetic line and the way it is changing. As print culture (and hence the divorce made by the phonetic alphabet) ends, we move from the line, back to the field, back to non-linear, acoustic space.
