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alphabetic and typographic culture is the task of the present
book. And it is today a quest which cannot but be undertaken
in the light of new technologies which deeply affect the
traditional operation and achieved values of alphabetic literacy
and typographic culture.
There is a recent work that seems to me to release me
from the onus of mere eccentricity and novelty in the present
study. It is The Open Society and Its Enemies by Karl R. Popper,
a work devoted to the study of aspects of detribalization in the
ancient world and of retribalization in the modern world. For the
“open society” was effected by phonetic literacy, as will shortly
appear, and is now threatened with eradication by electric
media, as will be discussed in the conclusion of this study.
Needless to say, the “is,” rather than the “ought,” of all these
developments, is alone being discussed. Diagnosis and