Speed, Sense, and the Post-Literate Prison

Описание: COMPANION ESSAYS:
3:08 - Differential Speed vs Finite Speed
   • Differential Speed vs Finite Speed  
4:37 - Difference in Kind vs Difference in Degree
   • Difference in Kind vs Difference in Degree  
6:04 - Deleuze's Concept of 'Sense'
   • Deleuze's Concept of 'Sense'  
10:56 - Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous
   • Heterogeneous vs Homogeneous  
13:26 - Ontological Problem/Distinction
   • Ontological Problem/Distinction  
14:31 - Microperceptions
   • Differential Speed vs Finite Speed  
16:35 - Conscious Apperception
   • Conscious Apperception  
24:29 - McLuhan's 'Medium is the Message'
   • McLuhan's 'Medium is the Message'  
31:26 - Flusser's 'Technical Images' vs Traditional Images
   • Flusser's Technical Images  


Speed, Sense, and the Post-Literate Prison is a series examining what reading actually is, what it does to consciousness, and why losing it matters more than anyone in the "post-literacy" conversation wants to admit. The series is built as a whole and its parts. This main essay is the complete argument, and living inside it are nine shorter essays, each one a self-contained exploration of a concept the main essay uses but doesn't fully unpack. You can watch the main essay straight through, or you can follow the links wherever a concept pulls you and explore the philosophical territory underneath. Every piece stands alone. Every piece also belongs to something larger. That's the point.


This is the main essay. Forty-eight percent of inmates in Texas state prisons are dyslexic. That statistic is not the argument. It's the door. Behind it is a stranger and more uncomfortable claim: that America doesn't criminalize illiteracy, it criminalizes slowness. Almost nobody is actually illiterate. What they are is slow, reading at speeds that make full civic and economic participation functionally impossible while being counted as literate because they can technically decode words given enough time. The first half traces what actually happens when reading works and when it doesn't, using Deleuze's Logic of Sense to show that fluent and basic literacy aren't different speeds of the same process. They are categorically different cognitive modes. The second half responds to the growing "post-literacy" argument, specifically Alice Cappelle's video essay, and makes the case that the moment we need textual literacy most is precisely now. Because the only tool capable of decoding a world dominated by technical images, algorithmic distribution, and computational media is the sustained abstract reasoning that fluent reading develops. Flusser saw this coming in 1983. We're living in what he warned about.


The nine companion essays are on the channel. Find whichever concept pulls at you.


00:00 - Start
00:52 - So this is a bigger thing
02:10 - Easy Start
08:47 - So you think you can read
16:54 - introducing my hero
19:51 - I need to expect less from everyone
24:30 - McCluhan Was Literal
26:24 - how mediums work
30:50 - Flussy Fluss

Here you go S3rios - https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10876...