Grice

Some of what Grice states in this reading is similar to the BBC program Ways of Seeing. Ways of Seeing covered a good portion of Walter Benjamin's ideas regarding mechanical reproduction of art. There is a part of the program, where the host is standing in front of an original painting. He then states that here is an original and I am standing in front of it, only what you are seeing is not the original as it is beamed to your living room via TV. Grice gets into a similar realm of thought as he covers our loss of the physical as we interact with digital representations of most everything. I often notice people in agony as they use their tiny cell phone to tap out communiques to their comrades also in the daily struggle. I like to think I don't look so uncomfortable, but I probably do. Relying on a phone isn't natural, but what the phone represents is natural. The phone represents our support network of friends and family which we would have called with our limited vocals in the past, but now we can send an electronic SOS to them at any time.