#svenbirkerts — Public Fediverse posts

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗴 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗶𝗲𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗦𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘁𝘀 -

Birkerts has plenty of angst over the demise of the paper book, and I don't share his view, I suspect. But let's give him a fair hearing as he laments the shift from static to dynamic text.

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𝗧𝗕𝗥 𝗣𝗶𝗹𝗲: 𝗙𝗲𝗯𝗿𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝘀 -

Views from the marginalized, this month. Erdrich is always a pleasure, and looking forward to Blackhawk's history along with my first book by Rankine!

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And finally, we couldn’t help but reshare our @CultureDesk's post of this LitHub article in praise of reading and print. It has everything a person could need — references to Terry Pratchett, Carl Sagan, George Orwell and Sven Birkerts, and some extremely pithy writing of its own. "The ephemerality of the internet is attractive to entropy, for how much of what’s been written over the past few decades has all but vanished, our prodigious output a daily burning of the Library of Alexandria, while stone, papyrus, vellum, and paper can endure for centuries,” writes Ed Simon. “A printed book is a living animal with flesh of paper and ink of blood, so that compared to turning pages, mere scrolling is anemic.”

https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-print-why-reading-remains-essential-in-an-era-of-epistemological-collapse/

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