Thursday, April 23, 2009
Topic for April 27, 2009
For the next class, I have several suggested readings. First my article "The Mentality of Homo interneticus". Second, an article in the NY Times Magazine by Clive Thompson :"I'm So Totally Digitally Close to You", and third and fourth two short pieces from my blog on the "Net as Superself" and "Are We losing the Narrative Self?" .
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There is another point made to Ong's work as I understand it. That is that literacy, the act of reading a text rather than hearing a text, separates the reader from the object. My own speculation, one that others have suggested, that perspective entered the art world of the West in the 14th century (Giotto) and became central to the Renaissance art world just as reading and particularly printing increased the reader population to a tipping point, so to speak. Perspective in art is fundamentally a work in which the viewer is suggested but not seen. This was something new. Any thoughts? Donn Downing
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