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English
Etymology
From grapho- + -sphere.
Pronunciation
Noun
graphosphere (plural graphospheres)
- The "totality of graphic devices used to record, store, display, and disseminate messages and information, and the social and cultural spaces in which they figure."
- 2005, Jacques Derrida (2005), cited in R. Burt, 2016, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, Springer. p. 24.
- What belongs to the graphosphere always implies some kind of surface, and even the materiality of some kind of backing or support; but not all graphemes are necessarily imprinted on paper, or the skin, photographic film, or a piece of parchment.
- (history) The age of print (following the logosphere, or age of writing, and preceding the videosphere).
- 2007, Régis Debray, "Socialism: A life-cycle," New Left Review, 46, July-August 2007.
- A second period, the graphosphere, runs from 1448 to around 1968: from the Gutenberg Revolution to the rise of TV.
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References
- ^ Simon Franklin, 2011, "Mapping the Graphosphere: Cultures of Writing in Early 19th-Century Russia (and Before)," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 12, No. 3, Summer 2011
- ^ Debray (2007), cited in Simon Franklin, 2011, "Mapping the Graphosphere: Cultures of Writing in Early 19th-Century Russia (and Before)," Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Vol. 12, No. 3, Summer 2011