1. what is “writing”?

4. A page from the Guttenberg Bible (15th century)

5. Crypto-Minoan syllabary (ca. 1550–1050 B.C.E.)

6. The Lascaux Bulls (ca. 15–18000 B.C.E.)

7. Filippino Lippi, Allegory of Music (1500)
Pablo Picasso, Guernica (1937)
Shepard Fairey, Hope (2008)

8. what is “writing”?

9. what is “writing”?
what is “the human”?

10. The origins of modernity
Invention of the printing press
Advent of the North Atlantic slave trade
European “discovery” of the Americas