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Life after Papyrus: The Swerve

February 17 2012, 5:05am | Comments
Bookmark Reading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
While the Internet is a text-saturated world, reading online screens tends to be significantly different from reading printed text. This review essay examines literature from a variety of disciplines on the…

June 6 2011, 1:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Goodbye to the Graphosphere
For half a millennium, across continents and civilizations, the human readership did almost nothing but grow and consolidate itself. Constantly more people in more and more places could read, and could…

July 17 2010, 12:36pm | Comments
Bookmark Reading in a Whole New Way
As digital screens proliferate and people move from print to pixel, how will the act of reading change? America was founded on the written word. Its roots spring from documents—the Constitution,…

July 9 2010, 3:24am | Comments
Bookmark As technology advances, deep reading suffers
Look closely at what you're reading right now. See those little spaces between the words? They may look unimportant, but the invention of word spaces, back in the Middle Ages, changed…

June 20 2010, 10:55am | Comments
Bookmark On Reading and This Progress, Connecting Lévi-Strauss and Tino Sehgal
Buried in the middle of Claude Lévi-Strauss's Tristes Tropiques, a book digressive in exactly the right way, is an astonishing argument about writing. Lévi-Strauss considers what the invention of writing might…

March 21 2010, 1:11pm | Comments
Bookmark The Future of Reading
The future of reading is very much in doubt. In this century, reading could soar to new heights or crash and burn. Some educators and librarians fear that sustained reading for…

November 3 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Wikipedia Postliterate Society A postliterate society is a hypothetical society wherein multimedia technology has advanced to the point where literacy, the ability to read written words, is no longer necessary. Many advanced science-fiction societies are postliterate, for example in Dan Simmons' 2003 novel Ilium. Postliterate is…

August 6 2009, 1:34pm | Comments
Bookmark Luis Camnitzer: Art and Literacy | Journal / e-flux
[T]his theory—that if one wants to be able to write something, one should know how it is written—has some logic to it. It forces one first to read, then to copy…

March 23 2009, 4:00pm | Comments
Bookmark Is Google Making Us Stupid? | The Atlantic
I can feel it, too. Over the past few years I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry, reprogramming the…

February 2 2009, 4:58pm | Comments
Bookmark Further Reading on Reading | NYTimes
What does it mean to read in a digital age? Researchers are just beginning to explore the question, and educators are engaged in passionate debate about how reading may be changing…

February 2 2009, 4:55pm | Comments

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