Zdeněk Joukl, Mythologies and framing of ancient and future writing systems

The talk will analyze some of the mythology-constructing roles (deriving from Barthes's mythologies) of a number of chosen scripts, with a special focus on Egyptian hieroglyphs. With inspiration from McLuhan, groundedness into medium will be taken into consideration. How were some scripts used as an instrument of power or to encode cosmology? And what direction could we be heading with technological advancements?