| Our culture has begun to go through what promises to be a total metamorphosis. Although society has experienced great changes before now, people's experience of the world "has altered more in the last fifty years than in the many centuries preceding ours". "Isolated changes" have, as a result of "electronic communications media and computer use", become systemic. "A finely filamented electronic scrim has slipped between ourselves and the so-called 'outside world'" resulting in a condition of "almost unbroken mediation". These changes have led Birkerts to conclude that "all is not well in the world of print and letters". "The printed word is part of a vestigial order that we are moving away from-by choice or by societal compulsion". We are moving away from "the patterns and habits of the printed page and toward a new world distinguised by its reliance on electronic communication". We are moving from "the culture of the book to the culture of electronic communication". Download ebooks on www.frenchtheory.com See that post with different algorithms in metabole See the journal French Metablog with today different posts Enter Hypertextual as a member |
