Custom, Memory and the Authority of Writing

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Abstract

Writing is a source of power: it is both a symbol and an agent of authority. As a technology of communication, it has the ability to revolutionise the transmission of information; as a means to objectify ideas, it has the capacity to transform mental process; and as an act of record, it has the potential to assume iconic significance.

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