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David J. Gunkel • AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA
As Sven Birkerts explains in the book “The Gutenberg Elegies”: “The idea of individual authorship — that one person would create an original work and have historical title to it — did not really become entrenched in the public mind until print superseded orality as the basis of cultural communication.”
David J. Gunkel • AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA
“The authority for writing has always been a socially constructed artifice. The author is not a natural phenomenon. It was an idea that we invented to help us make sense of writing.”
David J. Gunkel • AI Signals The Death Of The Author | NOEMA
He was the preeminent example of Typographic Man—detached, analytical, devoted to logic, abhorring contradiction.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
the proliferation of media artifacts and the growing colonization of our experience by varieties of digital mediation have generated an imperative to self-consciously interpret.
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
kinds of discourses in which technologies are situated and the contacts they afford.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
the subject of digital technology and spaces focuses on what digital technology might do for us, this book explores what the same technology might do to us.
John A. McArthur • Digital Proxemics: How Technology Shapes the Ways We Move (Digital Formations Book 110)
His questions can be asked about all technologies and media. What happens to us when we become infatuated with and then seduced by them? Do they free us or imprison us? Do they improve or degrade democracy? Do they make our leaders more accountable or less so? Our system more transparent or less so? Do they make us better citizens or better consume
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