Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 793.
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 06:47:34 +0100
From: lachance@chass.utoronto.ca (Francois Lachance)
Subject: Re: 17.792 Camille Paglia on image
To bad Frontpagemag.com doesn't record the reaction/impressions of the
youth people to her very short speech (expanded for frontpagemag.com
publicatin). Or for that matter responses from young people who were not
present at York Univeristy in 2002.
Paglia's bemoaning is an old trope. It's rehashing does a disservice to
those who are prepared to age gracefully and credit youth with a modicum
of intelligence, verve and gusto.
quote>
Interest in and patience with long, complex books and poems have
alarmingly diminished not only among college students but college faculty
in the U.S. It is difficult to imagine American students today, even at
elite universities, gathering impromptu at midnight for a passionate
discussion of big, challenging literary works like Dostoyevsky's The
Brothers Karamazov—a scene I witnessed in a recreation room strewn with
rock albums at my college dormitory in upstate New York in 1965.
<quote
She is wrong. The information communication technologies do provide a
setting for both multitasking and for extended discussions on big books.
One example on a book odyssey [a culinary volume] that can imitated with
any of the canonical works of literature is the julie/julia project. See
http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html
Furthermore time zones and ICTs give a new meaning to all nighter...
As one commentator writes at jill/txt:
Let us take the example of the Armistice - November 11 at 11 o'clock. A
occasion marked according to local time. It becomes possible through the
technologies of presence to imagine the marking of a world experience
through a series of 12 before and 12 after. Television is alleged to have
reduced attention spans. The Internet, expanded? Folded in each hour is a
day. Ditto for the minute. Ditto for the second. A calendar is like a map.
And just as maps have insets, calendars in the 21st century might have
"moments" expressed in local time and "windows" expressed in global time.
http://huminf.uib.no/~jill/archives/world/patterns_thankfully_disrupted.html
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 792.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
> Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu
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> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:17:17 +0100
> From: Ross Scaife <scaife@UKY.EDU>
> >
> (from the Explorator newsletter)
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> Camille Paglia has an interesting essay on the changing nature of the
> 'image' in modern culture:
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> http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12923
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> "The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but
> deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the
> mother ship of culture. Technology, like Kubrick's rogue computer, HAL,
> is the companionable servant turned ruthless master. The ironically
> self-referential or overtly politicized and jargon-ridden paradigms of
> higher education, far from helping the young to cope or develop, have
> worsened their vertigo and free fall."
>
-- Francois Lachance, Scholar-at-large http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~lachanceWondering if...
mnemonic is to analytic as mimetic is to synthetic
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