Imagining the Audience into Being - Genealogies of Modernity

How does a writer reach an audience? The examples of Samuel Johnson and David Foster Wallace demonstrate some of the differences between oral storytelling (often considered premodern) and written fiction (often considered modern), and how writers can use aspects of orality to create the sense of a communal audience. This video is based on episode 8 of the Genealogies of Modernity Podast, "The Enemy of Morality is not Modernity, It's Me": https://genealogiesofmodernity.org/podcast-season-ii-ep-viii.