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Phonetic literacy is an extension of the body in
the way that the wheel or clothing are extensions
of the body. Electricity, however, is not an
extension of any position of the body but rather
of the central nervous system itself. That is, the
instant character of electricity introduces the
principle of interrelation that is antithetic to all
earlier technologies which in effect had
fragmented and extended the body by way of
specialism and amplification.
The effect of phonetic literacy in extending and
amplifying the visual component in Western
experience and social organization was to create