Molly-- Having just sat through a course on development of the brain, and
perhaps because I am strongly left dominant, I find the sort of reductionist
left/right brain thesis such as put forth in the literacy and the goddess
book less than compelling.
ditto "the medium is the message" reductionism. As a person who, gulp,
started a comm department and believes in the inflection of human experience
by the media through which we are/have been constituted, I have a strong
affinity for being media inclusive in my trhinking, which is to say, culture
inclusive. But again, taken to the extreme, the ideas can turn vicious or
at least vacuuous.
Nice photo on the cover though and the general thesis certainly fits
into a course on mediational theories of mind!
mike
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