Derek de Kerckhove
Acting director of the Marshall McLuhan program and professor, discussing the phonetic alphabet's role in the emergence of individual ego and modern historical consciousness.
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History and the New Age
Father Thomas Berry, a theologian and eco-thinker, reflects on Biblical transcendence and nature's loss. Derek de Kerckhove, media scholar, links the phonetic alphabet to the rise of individual ego and visual, objectifying culture. Raimundo Panikkar, comparative religion scholar, traces primordial time-consciousness and how writing shifts life toward historical, future-oriented time.
