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1. The Electronic Word: Democracy, Technology, and the Arts

   The personal computer has revolutionized communication, and digitized text has introduced a radically new medium of expression. Interactive, volatile, mixing word and image, the electronic word challenges our assumptions about the shape of culture itself.

   This highly acclaimed collection of Richard Lanham's witty, provocative, and engaging essays surveys the effects of electronic text on the arts and letters. Lanham explores how electronic text fulfills the expressive agenda of twentieth-century visual art and music, revolutionizes the curriculum, democratizes the instruments of art, and poses anew the cultural accountability of humanism itself.

   (Source: Publisher's catalogue copy)

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   Scott Rettberg - 07.07.2013 - 21:20

2. Old Orders for New: Ecology, Animal Rights, and The Poverty of Humanism

   Cary Wolfe reviews Luc Ferry’s The New Ecological Order.

   Early on in The New Ecological Order, French philosopher Luc Ferry characterizes the allure and the danger of ecology in the postmodern moment. What separates it from various other issues in the intellectual and political field, he writes, is that it can call itself a true “world vision,” whereas the decline of political utopias, but also the parcelization of knowledge and the growing “jargonization” of individual scientific disciplines, seemed to forever prohibit any plan for the globalization of thought… At a time when ethical guide marks are more than ever floating and undetermined, it allows the unhoped-for promise of rootedness to form, an objective rootedness, certain of a new moral ideal (xx).

   As we shall see, for Ferry – a staunch liberal humanist in the Kantian if not Cartesian tradition – this vision conceals a danger to which contemporary European intellectuals are especially sensitive: not holism, nor even moralism, exactly, but that far more charged and historically freighted thing, totalitarianism.

   tye042 - 18.10.2017 - 14:39

3. All of Us

   William Major measures academic “ecocriticism” against the practical “agrarianism” of Wendell Berry.

   Glenn Solvang - 24.10.2017 - 15:05

4. The Question of the Animal

   On posthumanism potentially worthy of the name.

   Glenn Solvang - 07.11.2017 - 14:48

5. On ®TMark, or, The Limits of Intellectual Property Hacktivism

   On ®TMark, or, The Limits of Intellectual Property Hacktivism

   Filip Falk - 15.12.2017 - 16:42