January 2011
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“You yourself have always objected to the opinion I give of myself. But even if...”
– Saul Bellow, in a letter to Melvin Tumin, April 21, 1948.
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Internet Stupidity
Technologies which are vectors for the transmission of information -narratives or datasets or social communication- inform human thought as surely as does language itself. The structures of one’s grammar and the content of one’s vocabulary -both dictional and conceptual- delimit one’s cognition, although perhaps not one’s range of emotion. Similarly, the structures of a...
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Internet Stupidity
Technologies which are vectors for the transmission of information -narratives or datasets or social communication- inform human thought as surely as does language itself. The structures of one’s grammar and the content of one’s vocabulary -both dictional and conceptual- delimit one’s cognition, although perhaps not one’s range of emotion. Similarly, the structures of a...
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“You yourself have always objected to the opinion I give of myself. But even if...”
– Saul Bellow, in a letter to Melvin Tumin, April 21, 1948.
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