Timeline of the Theory of Writing

I thought that as a collective thought experiment, it might be interesting to develop a timeline of important moments in the theorizing of writing.  So whatever instances you can think of, add to comments and I'll insert into the post.

360 BCE: Plato sits down and pens a little dialog about sexual innuendo, rhetoric, and the problems with writing.  Unlike the give and take of oral communication, writing is but dead letters on dead leaves, and worthy only of practicing if it follows upon the heels of already valuable oral communication and touches on non-serious issues.  He and the shining one , by contrast, engage in a bit of non-seriousness.

353 BCE: Plato takes up writing again, this time to explain why he cannot be held responsible for the death of Dion, and that, in fact, his involvement in the politics of Sicily was what we might today call "all good."  While doing so, he takes the time to point out that those malfeasants who claim to be philosophers cannot be so, because they write about serious matters, which this letter, umm, most certainly does not.

1882: In the same year that he publishes The Gay Science and declares the death of God, Friedrich Nietzsche’s failing eyesight leads him to purchase an early prototype of the typewriter.  Able to learn the letter placement through feel and routine, Nietzsche becomes the first philosopher to experience ecriture automatique, print inscription without the attention-demanding slowness of the handwritten word.

1942: During the long winter of 1942/43, with the Battle of Stalingrad deciding the future of the Third Reich’s eastern front, Martin Heidegger delivers a lecture course on the fragments of Parmenides at the University of Frieburg, in which he surprises his audience by bursting into a random discussion of how the typewriter is eclipsing the experience of Being.  Dust off those quills and bust out the inkwells, because handwriting is the real deal when it comes to living in the house of Being.  Or so he says.

1968: A student revolution in France fails the same year in which Roland Barthes publicly declares the death of the author and the advent of the scriptor, a figure who no longer believes in the innate, corporeal connection of hand and voice and who celebrates the accelerated speed of modern writing.

1969: One year later, another Frenchman by the name of Michel Foucault explores the strange, spectral status of the author, recognizing that God and the author pretty much died coterminous deaths.  Foucault, the last and perhaps greatest philosophical archivist, links the emergence of the modern author function to particular historical contingencies, even if, like most of his work, he touches only lightly on his own scribal machinations.

Ok, those will get us started.  Anyone got some more?