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_refugee_  ·  4132 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The anthropological aspect of Facebook

> Modes of storytelling have always been altered by technology. Most anthropologists are starting to consider language itself to be a technology. The types of narratives you can construct pre-language are quite primitive. Very short strings of symbols without grammar.

theadvancedapes, the whole start of your comment reminded me of this, which is (I guess) a spoken-word poem. I thought I'd share. humanodon, you might enjoy too. Are you familiar with Rives? I don't slam or do spoken word myself but, if it's good, I can enjoy it.

http://www.ted.com/talks/rives_tells_a_story_of_mixed_emotic...