English Dictionary

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."

The graphosphere is a complex system of visual representation.

意味（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.

意味（2）

(history) 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.