| Description |
263 pages : 22 cm |
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text txt rdacontent |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
| Bib Note |
Includes index |
| Contents |
Design -- Text -- Images -- Video -- Music -- Even if you don't believe in it |
| Summary |
Virgina Heffernan, who has been called "America's preeminent cultural critic," "a public intellectual for the 21st century," and among the "finest living writers of English prose," sees the digital revolution as one of the great developments of human civilization. Magic and Loss travels the roads of digital culture, as well as many of its back alleys, to find a world with its own logic, its own rhythms, its own ideology, and its own culture. Brilliantly cataloging and critically describing basic human experiences--talking to a friend on the phone, walking down a sidewalk, listening to music, reading a book--Heffernan charts how the Intenet has made magic of so many of our aesthetic experiences. But she also points out how the physical and emotional experience of the world we knew five, ten, twenty years ago is vanishing. Where there's magic, there's also loss. A witty, erudite, and intellecturally thrilling book, Magic and Loss dares to find meaning--and even beauty--in the digital revolution. -- Provided by publisher |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects
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| ISBN |
1439191700 |
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9781439191705 |
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