our thinkers are dead, and their replacements are illiterate.
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our thinkers are dead, and their replacements are illiterate.
What used to be meant by “humanism,” that old romance of the self, the idea that the self is to be refined by exposure to things that are wonderful and difficult and imbued with what was called the human spirit, once an object of unquestioned veneration, has ended.
Marilynne Robinson • The Death of Adam
The Last Humanist: Nicholas Carr on What the Digital Age Can't Replace
Erik J Larsonerikjlarson.substack.com
When you describe yourself as a “writer” but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity. Who am I, if not my content? It is hard not to feel the disappearance of creative work as a different kind of death of the author, one in which readers can’t interpret my work because they can’t find it. It is... See more
s.e. smith • What happens when the internet disappears?
(January 1, 1915 - July 12, 1998) was an African-American historian, professor, and a pioneer in the creation of Pan-African and Africana studies, and professional institutions in academia starting in the late 1960s.
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