Film is a disturbing symbol of an increasingly
postliterate world [in which people can read but won't].'
There are also ripples of other contemporary discontents--the encroaching dissatisfaction of once-privileged white men, the perennial gender divide and the death of literature in our
postliterate world.
He was
postliterate - total television." But "Fire and Fury" reveals that White House staff and Cabinet members believed Trump's intellectual challenges went well beyond having a limited reading list: Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin called him an "idiot," Cohn dismissed him as "dumb," national security adviser H.R.
Both preliterate and
postliterate ritual are highly involving, and what involves, surrounds.
Preliterate and
postliterate cultures tend to be more interality-oriented than literate cultures.
Libraries will need to serve a
postliterate society, one in which people can read but prefer to learn and be entertained by other media.
The result might recall Guy Debord's collaboration with Asger Jorn on the 1959 book Memoires, structures portantes d'Asger Jorn, or, in a more programmatic sense, Marshall McLuhan and Quentin Fiore's attempts to remodel the book form for a
postliterate readership.
Davis's distinctions have been criticized by Robert Rosenstone, "The Historical Film: Looking at the Past in a
Postliterate Age," in Marcia Landy, ed., The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media (New Brunswick: Rutgers, 2001), 53, and by Richard Burt, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media (New York: Palgrave, 2008), 139ff.