Tag: Technology and Culture

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| April 14, 2009

the production line

Mark Bauerlein of Emory University is concerned about the “production line” of little-read and...

| March 19, 2009

linkages

One of the really cool things about the Internet is that if you wait long enough someone else will say all the things...

| March 17, 2009

Pound and Fenollosa

About ninety-five years ago, the American poet Erza Pound, then living in London, received the manuscript of an essay...

| March 13, 2009

more ideography

In response to yesterday’s post on traditional and simplified Chinese characters, I got a really interesting...

| March 12, 2009

ideography

Here’s a fascinating post by James Fallows on a current debate in China about how to form the ideographic...

| March 11, 2009

department of no comment

From here: Twitter of the Shrew – adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the classic comedy attributed to...

| March 6, 2009

moment of surrender

I was walking to work this morning (in more pleasant weather than I’ve been afforded in quite some time) and...