Caves

Here is a link to the cave tour through Lascaux. And the documentary that I told you about I found on YouTube:

The origins of writing

We've been discussing the emergence of figurative representation in the paleolithic. I believe it points to something important about the human capacity for abstraction. Our gaze will fall next onto numeracy and from there to the origins of our species' most bizarre and fantastic invention: writing.

Welcome

Here is the syllabus (pdf). Download it, and bookmark this page. We will begin the semester by running through a brief history of human communication. What does "media" mean?