This presentation touches on manyy topics across this whole semester in class. I specifically focus in on the relationship between media, time, and human experience through different lenses.

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Writing vs Orality: Through the Lense of a Student Athlete This audio draws from Walter Ong. I explain how writing transforms immediate moments, like a basketball game or personal journal reflections, into structured, reflective understandings. Writing helps us see our thoughts and actions in new ways, allowing for deeper insight and understanding.

The title "A Thin Slice of Time" draws inspiration from Susan Sontag’s exploration of photography in her essay In Plato’s Cave, from On Photography. Sontag explains how the camera as a tool that freezes moments, capturing fleeting moments of reality and saving them forever. She reflects on how photographs can pause experience into single, isolated…

Time is Fleeting As dolphins lack enduring spatial media of inscription, so we lack media of temporal inscription. We may yet develop highly effective three-dimensional printers, but ‘viii never print in four dimensions.Time marks the limits of all our material shapings.Our cetacean siblings mirror our lacks. As they are to matter, we are to time:…