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Visual |
Aural |
Audio |
External memory |
Internal memory,
mnemonic |
Cultural memory |
Analytic, logical |
Wholistic,
analogical |
Gestalt, symbol,
image |
Detached, objective |
Involved, subjective,
"Agonistically toned" |
Resonance or
avoidance |
Words are inanimate,
pointers |
Words have power, are
events in themselves (naming) |
Brand names have iconic
power and associations |
Linear time --- >
spatial |
Cyclic time --- >
repetitive |
Cyclic templates &
formats |
Self-object
detachment |
Integrative |
Demographic markets |
Abstract concepts &
categories |
Situational, concrete
experience (life-world) |
Life-world problem
-> solution |
Compact, edited, linear |
Redundant, copious,
additive |
Sound-byte, repetitive |
Originality, new ideas |
Conservative,
homeostatic, traditional |
Turnover of new
"improved" products |
Other References:Eric Havelock: Preface to PlatoJack Goody: The Domestication of the Savage Mind
Harold Innis: Empire and Communication
Marshall McLuhan: Understanding Media
Frances Yates: The Art of Memory
Roman text: Ad Herennium (1st c. BC):Memory for places (loci) easily grasped by the memory; well-lit, moderate size, uncrowded, distinctive, clear order
Images are forms, marks, simulacra, placed on definite loci; images for things (res), images for words (verba); distinct, unusual and striking images are preferred (richly adorned, comic, hideous, etc); creating a "persona" (per-sona); repetition is needed to fix it in memory
"The art of memory was a creator of imagery which must surely have flowed out into creative works of art and literature" (p.100)