Posted by Joseph Nechvatal on January 04, 1996 at 18:36:48:
I enjoyed the book and was riveted to Birkerts discussion of the task of What I appreciate about this book is his almost "There is one other place of sanctuary. Not a physical place - not nice-- Joseph Nechvatal 24, rue Norvins Paris 75018 Digital telecommunication towards hypermedia Mirrorings, replicas & copies of mirrored images o Happy New Year!
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Have you read "the gutenburg elegies"_ by sven birkerts?
reading. He likes books and it shows. I wandered hesitant through the
next section where he prophecies against the "electronic millennium" and
distrusted much of his comments because he seemed not to know his
argument as well, or perhaps he was (as we all are) rather torn between
our reality and that proposed by technology. He then had a couple of
expository chapters on relevant books which made me yawn, but managed to
regain my interest in the end.
romantic reference to a "Deep time" a "shadow life" of books which
move us internally beyond our situation and allow possibilities of insight.
In chapter three he writes about this occasion of "art":
church or office - but a metaphysical one. Depth survives, condensed and
enfolded, in authentic works of art. In anything that can grant us true
aesthetic experience. For this experience is vertical; it transpires in
deep time and, in a sense, secures that time for us. Immersed in a
ballet performance, planted in front of a painting, we shatter the
horizontal plane."
and the global connectivity of the infosphere
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