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Reading in the future: Literacy in the time of the internet
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posted on 2023-05-25, 23:23 authored by Cole, DRDavid R. Cole's Reading in the Future: Literacy and the Time of the Internet‚ÄövÑvp locates the literacies of the internet ‚Äö- itself read as the end game of western technology‚ÄövÑvp or the Machina Mundi, the Great Chain of the World that has a centre that is everywhere and a circumference that is nowhere ‚Äö- in a contradictory space. But Cole also self-consciously locates his own writing at a moment in time when the initial technological hype of the internet is subsiding in the face of the boredom of informational overload and the internet is emerging as both an unlimited realm of resource‚ÄövÑvp and the site of a brand of western nihilism containing a sense of relativism, collapse of meaning and cultural schizo-cynicism‚ÄövÑvp. Remarkably, in the course of his argument, Coles does not appropriate the internet, does not simplify it according to his own vision of its potential or mission ‚Äö- but allows it to remain a place of cultural schizophrenia, to be navigated only by means of the corresponding learning, acceptance, and practice of schizo literacy‚ÄövÑvp.
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