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020 $a9781555977214$qpaperback
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100 1 $aBirkerts, Sven,$eauthor.
245 10 $aChanging the subject :$bart and attention in the Internet age /$cSven Birkerts.
264 1 $aMinneapolis, Minnesota :$bGraywolf Press,$c[2015]
300 $a256 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
505 0 $aOn or about -- The lint of the material -- Serendipity -- The room and the elephant -- You are what you click -- The hive life -- "I'll take Hell in a handbasket for five hundred, Alex" -- "It's not because I'm a cranky Luddite, I swear" -- André Kertész on reading -- Notebook: reading in a digital age -- Bolaño summer: a reading journal -- It wants to find you -- The Salieri syndrome: envy and attachment -- Idleness -- Emerson's "The poet"- a circling -- The still point -- Attending the dragonfly.
520 $a"In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art. Over the next two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has reluctantly allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life... In Changing the subject, he examines the changes that he has observed in himself and others-- the distraction induced by reading on the screen; the loss of personal agency through reliance on GPS and one-stop information resources; an increasing acceptance of "hive" behaviors. "An unprecedented shift is underway," he argues, and "this transformation is dramatically accelerated and more psychologically formative than any previous technological innovation." He finds solace in engagement with art, particularly literature, and contemplates the countering energies available to us through acts of sustained attention, even as he worries that our increasingly mediated existences are a threat to creativity."--Page 4 of cover.
650 0 $aArt and technology.
650 0 $aLiterature and technology.
650 0 $aTechnological innovations$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aDigital media$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aInternet$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aThought and thinking.
852 00 $bmil$hHM851$i.B57 2015g