Scribal and Print Cultures

"Unlike scribal culture, which is inherently anti-individualist, print culture fosters ideas of personal fame by multiplying the author-as-signature indefinitely, projecting him both in space and in time into print-made immortality."

J. M. Coetzee, "Censorship and Polemic"

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