February 2010
8 posts
WatchI have not yet recovered from the devastation of missing this live.
glecharles:
Richard took the stage at Hill Country and showed us what social publishing is really about with a rousing take on “I Love Rock & Roll”.
A little digital optimism
“Technologies are not mere exterior aids, but also interior transformations of consciousness—and never more than when they affect the word. Such transformations can be uplifting.”
-Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy: The Technologizing of the Word, 1982.
Edge People
nybooks:
Tony Judt
Straus Park, New York, 1997; photograph by Dominique Nabokov
“Identity” is a dangerous word. It has no respectable contemporary uses. In Britain, the mandarins of New Labour—not satisfied with installing more closed-circuit surveillance cameras than any other democracy—have sought (so far unsuccessfully) to invoke the “war on terror” as an occasion to introduce mandatory...
“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak, author of ‘The Book Thief.’ (via keremmermutlu) (via booklover)
“Of all the criteria by which people habitually distinguish civilization from...”
– Claude Lévi-Strauss, “A Writing Lesson” from Tristes Tropiques
“Things are going to slide, slide in all directions
Won’t be nothing, nothing...”
– Leonard Cohen, “The Future” 