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1. Friending the Past: The Sense of History and Social Computing

   Reflecting on the relation between the media ages of orality, writing, and digital networking, Liu asks the question: what happens today to the “sense of history” that was the glory of the high age of print? In particular, what does the age of social computing—social networking, blogs, Twitter, etc.—have in common with prior ages in which the experience of sociality was deeply vested in a shared sense of history? Liu focuses on a comparison of nineteenth-century historicism and contemporary Web 2.0, and concludes by touching on the RoSE Research-oriented Social Environment that the Transliteracies Project he directs has been building to model past bibliographical resources as a social network. (Source: author's abstract)

   Eric Dean Rasmussen - 20.10.2011 - 13:05

2. Anomalies

   Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred

   Jeffrey J. Kripal

   Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Print.

   Investigating the Anomalies: Mysteries from Behind the Former Iron Curtain

   Vladimir V. Rubtsov

   Kharkov, Ukraine: Research Institute on Anomalous Phenomena, 2011. Kindle eBook.

   Wonders in the Sky: Unexplained Aerial Objects from Antiquity to Modern Times

   Jacques Vallee and Chris Aubeck

   New York: Tarcher/Penguin, 2010. Print.

   From the heavens to the stars, the number three has often been tied to the occult. Carrying on this tradition, Rob Swigart has brought together three books that investigate the anomalous, address the unexplained, and answer the impossible. The truth is in here.

   (source: http://electronicbookreview.com/thread/criticalecologies/anomalous)

   Malene Fonnes - 26.09.2017 - 12:41