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Death of the Book Redux

Posted on July 17, 2014 by geoffcain

I don’t know if this is related to climate change or the polar vortex, but the yearly declaration that the book is dead or dying is early this year. Naomi S. Baron, in her article “How E-Reading Threatens the Humanities” … Continue reading →

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Sven Birkerts in the Digital Age

Posted on April 20, 2010 by geoffcain

Image via Wikipedia Sven Birkerts wrote an article in the American Scholar called “Reading in a Digital Age” where the tagline claims that his essay discusses “why the novel and the Internet are opposites and why the latter undermines the … Continue reading →

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On the Greatly Exaggerated Death of Culture

Posted on February 24, 2010 by geoffcain

I really thought Culture (I mean the exclusive education of privilege maintained by privilege) would have died years ago. Sven Birkerts and others have been predicting the death of The Book, Google is supposed be making us stupid, and instant … Continue reading →

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