These observers captured the moment when civilization turned from typographic culture"itself a massive break from the largely oral culture that preceded it"to electronic media. They're the metaphorical physicians who noted the first symptoms of a worsening malaise we're seeing now. In other words, our internet-and-smartphone-driven age does not represent, as we might think, its own […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:04PM on December 17, 2018