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-	A '''postliterate society''' is a hypothetical society in which [[multimedia]] technology has advanced to the point where [[literacy]], the ability to read or write, is no longer necessary or common. The term appears as early as 1962 in [[Marshall McLuhan]]'s ''[[The Gutenberg Galaxy]]''. Many science-fiction societies are postliterate, as in [[Ray Bradbury]]'s ''[[Fahrenheit 451]]'', [[Dan Simmons]]' novel ''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]'', and [[Gary Shteyngart]]'s ''[[Super Sad True Love Story]]''.	+
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-	A postliterate society is different from a [[pre-literate]] one, as the latter has not yet created writing and communicates orally ([[oral literature]] and [[oral history]], aided by art, dance, and singing), and the former has replaced the written word with recorded sounds ([[Compact Disc|CD]]s, [[audiobook]]s), broadcast spoken word and music ([[radio]]), pictures ([[JPEG]]) and moving images ([[television]], [[film]], [[MPEG-1|MPG]], [[streaming video]], [[video game]]s, [[virtual reality]]). A postliterate society might still include people who are [[Aliteracy|aliterate]], who know how to read and write but choose not to. Most if not all people would be [[Media literacy|media literate]], [[New literacies|multimedia literate]], [[Visual literacy|visually literate]], and [[Transliteracy|transliterate]].	+
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-	In his recent nonfiction book, ''The Empire of Illusion'', Pulitzer prize–winner [[Chris Hedges]] charts the recent, sudden rise of postliterate culture within the world culture as a whole.	+
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-	Author [[Bruce Powe]], in his 1987 book ''The Solitary Outlaw'', had this to say about a post-literate society:	+
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-	:Literacy: the ability to read and interpret the written word. What is post-literacy? It is the condition of semi-literacy, where most people can read and write to some extent, but where the literate sensibility no longer occupies a central position in culture, society, and politics. Post-literacy occurs when the ability to comprehend the written word decays. If post-literacy is now the ground of society questions arise: what happens to the reader, the writer, and the book in post-literary environment? What happens to thinking, resistance, and dissent when the ground becomes wordless?	+
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-	==See also==	+
-	*[[Asemic writing]]	+
-	*[[Cyberculture]]	+
-	*[[Daniel Bell]]	+
-	*[[Film]]	+
-	*[[Multimedia literacy]]	+
-	*[[Oral history]]	+
-	*[[Post-industrial society]]	+
-	*[[Radio]]	+
-	*[[Television studies]]	+
-	*[[Transliteracy]]	+
-	*[[Visual literacy]]	+
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