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graphosphere

graphosphere noun: the "totality of graphic devices used to record, store, display, and disseminate messages and information, and the social and cultural spaces in which they figure.".

Noun

graphosphere (plural graphospheres)

  1. The "totality of graphic devices used to record, store, display, and disseminate messages and information, and the social and cultural spaces in which they figure."
    • What belongs to the graphosphere always implies some kind of surface, and even the materiality of some kind of backing or support; but not all graphemes are necessarily imprinted on paper, or the skin, photographic film, or a piece of parchment.2005, Jacques Derrida (2005), cited in R. Burt, 2016, Medieval and Early Modern Film and Media, Springer. p. 24.
  2. The age of print (following the logosphere, or age of writing, and preceding the videosphere).
    • A second period, the graphosphere, runs from 1448 to around 1968: from the Gutenberg Revolution to the rise of TV.2007, Régis Debray, "Socialism: A life-cycle," New Left Review, 46, July-August 2007.

Forms of graphosphere

pluralgraphospheres

Origin of graphosphere

From grapho- + -sphere.

Questions about graphosphere

What does graphosphere mean?
Graphosphere means the "totality of graphic devices used to record, store, display, and disseminate messages and information, and the social and cultural spaces in which they figure.".
What part of speech is graphosphere?
Graphosphere is a noun.
What is the plural of graphosphere?
The plural of graphosphere is graphospheres.

Words near graphosphere in the dictionary

  1. graphorrhoea
  2. graphoscope
  3. graphoscopes
  4. graphospasm
  5. graphospasms
  6. graphosphere
  7. graphospheres
  8. graphostatic
  9. graphostatical
  10. graphostatics
  11. graphosyllabic

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