![rw-book-cover](https://df98sgxf21dqwk.archive.ph/95Zyw/88a6e9f08031506423e8eeb303c68418d9c3c310/scr.png) ## Metadata - Author: [[joshua-rothman|Joshua Rothman]] - Full Title:: What’s Happening to Reading? - Category:: #🗞️Articles - URL:: https://archive.ph/95Zyw - Read date:: [[2025-07-17]] ## Highlights > Some theorists have even proposed that we’re returning to a kind of oral culture—what the historian Walter Ong described as a “secondary orality,” in which gab and give-and-take are enhanced by the presence of text. The ascendance of podcasts, newsletters, and memes has lent credence to this view. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k0bberq6c6ykxjmdfvqgf995)) Más bien borrachuzos a las 3 de la mañana en un bar. > “The Joe Rogan Experience” could be understood as a couple of guys around a campfire, passing on knowledge through conversation, like the ancient Greeks. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01k0bbf4gk37pq7rxtvpx1apar))