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graphospheres

graphospheres is the plural of graphosphere.

Meaning of graphosphere

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.

Questions about graphospheres

What is graphospheres the plural of?
Graphospheres is the plural of graphosphere.

Words near graphospheres in the dictionary

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

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