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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
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 How to Change the Song in your Head
You've been singing the theme to The Love Boat for hours now, and you're becoming unmoored. If a song is on an unfinished loop, "sing it through all the way, or…

July 22 2009, 4:05pm | Comments
Bookmark Dancing About Architecture
I just published a novel about music. Early in the process of writing it, I was warned by a similarly music-obsessive friend that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture.…

July 2 2009, 9:30am | Comments
Portfolio The Movement of The Middle

June 30 2009, 9:05am | Comments
Bookmark Dual Perspectives Article
Not long ago mass media was about the only kind of culture there was. The lucky few creative works that made it into general circulation were what copyright law was supposed…

June 16 2009, 3:08pm | Comments
Bookmark Immortal Information
For centuries, archivists have noted a curious relationship between “quantity” and “quality” of items in their collections. That is, typically a storage medium’s durability is inversely proportional to the amount of…

June 16 2009, 10:38am | Comments
Bookmark Is There a Better Word for Doom?
Six experts discuss the merits of framing climate change, the language that troubles them, and the inherent bias of any chosen word. In a report to be released the first week…

May 27 2009, 5:19pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily A Bomb Won't Go Off Here

May 17 2009, 9:15pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Misc 3quarksdaily (An Eclectic Digest of Science, Art and Literature) machine says: What traditional libraries need is a more networked, discursive interface.I love the British Library. I spent half of my study time there last year, searching for specific books in the database and picking them up from the collection desks to study…

April 23 2009, 12:51am | Comments
Writing for 3quarksdaily Writing (Hyper)text and Image
A Polyptychal Discursion: This text, designed with its own concerns in mind, diverges on many trajectories, crossing over itself, intersecting its arguments and statements with images and forms which question the traditional logic of the essay. This text will become enabled not through a…

February 23 2009, 7:07am | Comments
Wikipedia Phaedrus (dialogue) - Wikipedia After Phaedrus concedes that this speech was certainly better than any Lysias could compose, they begin a discussion of the nature and uses of rhetoric itself. After showing that speechmaking itself isn't something reproachful, and that what is truly shameful is to engage…

September 28 2008, 10:24am | Comments
Wikipedia Alphabetic principle - Wikipedia The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. The alphabetic principle is the foundation of any alphabetic writing system, which is the most…

September 3 2008, 11:01am | Comments
Spacecollective.org hypertext/?="The Metaphor is the Message"

April 18 2008, 4:22am | Comments
Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments
Wikipedia Collocation - Wikipedia Within the area of corpus linguistics, collocation is defined as a sequence of words or terms which co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. Collocation refers to the restrictions on how words can be used together, for example which prepos

March 25 2008, 4:08pm | Comments
Spacecollective.org The Archaeology of The Book

March 17 2008, 3:05am | Comments
Wikipedia Defenestration - Wikipedia Defenestration is the act of throwing someone or something out of a window. The word comes from the Latin de (from; out of) and fenestra (window). Merriam-Webster's dictionary users named it as one of their favorite words of the year in 2004.

July 3 2007, 2:28am | Comments

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