Tag Archives: Lev Grossman

updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields

…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading

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updike: slow accretions of random detail

If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading

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updike: small appliances of civilization

…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading

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the ghost in the machine

Immortality through science? Can our ethical and emotional intelligence keep up with technology? Its a highly ambiguous issue. We seem to be on the cusp of a major, and final break from the industrial age; a potential for vastly increased … Continue reading

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KNOCKING OFF YOGI BEAR :Take A No.2 In The New Woods?

Any platform that can be used to trade cat pictures can bring down a government – Ethan Zuckerman. The fundamental questions are all about what this new participatory and convergent culture will be like. Is participation the new consumption? It is … Continue reading

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/b/:LET THEM EAT MARBLE CAKE

We have become accustomed to thinking about 4Chan as the breeding ground for memes as well as shaping the associated cultural reactions to such memes. There are other implications to 4Chan beside the obvious pop culture reading…. Alexis de Toqueville’s … Continue reading

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THE DISPOSABLE NATURE OF ANONYMOUS: Why /b/ So Serious?

The idea of anonymity is a very powerful thing…With complete anonymity, the 4Chan online community boasts 700,000 daily users that work to “create, remix and and popularize” memes and imagery within, maintaining “a language, ethics and set of activities that … Continue reading

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