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what is “writing”?
A page from the Guttenberg Bible (15th century)
Crypto-Minoan syllabary (ca. 1550–1050 B.C.E.)
The Lascaux Bulls (ca. 15–18000 B.C.E.)
Filippino Lippi, Allegory of Music (1500)
     Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)
      Shepard Fairey, Hope (2008)
what is “writing”?
what is “writing”?

what is “the human”?
The origins of modernity

Invention of the printing press

Advent of the North Atlantic slave trade

European “discovery” of the Americas
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