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produced commodity. In amplifying and extending the written
word, typography revealed and greatly extended the structure
of writing. Today, with the cinema and the electric speed-up of
information movement, the formal structure of the printed
word, as of mechanism in general, stands forth like a branch
washed up on the beach. A new medium is never an addition to
an old one, nor does it leave the old one in peace. It never
ceases to oppress the older media until it finds new shapes and
positions for them. Manuscript culture had sustained an oral
procedure in education that was called “scholasticism” at its
higher levels; but by putting the same text in front of any given
number of students or readers print ended the scholastic
regime of oral disputation very quickly. Print provided a vast
new memory for past writings that made a personal memory
inadequate.