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Gladwell for Dummies | The Nation
Haven't read him. Saw him on TV on a couple of shows. He's an overeducated idiot who writes for other overeducated idiots. He's like the non-fiction version of Stephen King: he just types and types, then sends the result off to a publisher without worryin
Viktor Ivančić: Tko će bandi pružiti odmor?
Zadovoljan Hrvat je onaj koji ubire profit od rada dobroga Hrvata.
Valerie Tarico: Christians Vote on the Worst Verse in the Bible
http://shipoffools.com/features/2009/chapter_and_worse_results.html
DRM Is Not Evil | thedigitalist.net
1. paper is a form of DRM; 2. mass culture relies on a mass business model undermined by piracy
Why Books? | The Valve - A Literary Organ
why is the “gold standard” in literary studies a book for tenure?
Does Mr. Galton Still Have a Problem?: Autocorrelation in the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample (PDF)
Niall Lucy & Steve Mickler: The War on English: An Answer to the Question, What is Postmodernism? | TRANSFORMATIONS Journal of Media & Culture
Postmodernism is denounced for consisting (allegedly) of five broad features, all of which are meant to be equally damning:
* postmodernism holds there to be no such thing as truth
* postmodernism equals moral relativism
* postmodernism is le
Why I remain pessimistic | Steamboats Are Ruining Everything
about the purported rise of reading rates in the US in 2008
Doomed to Dilettantism < Columns | PopMatters
"Distraction is the permanent end state of the perfected consumer, not least because distraction is a state that is eminently programmable.” (Carr) The tendency to become distracted is not some personal failing or the indicator of someone’s weak will, but
David Friedman on Unschooling
K-12 schooling model implicitly assumes that, out of the enormous body of human knowledge, there is some subset that everyone should study and that is large enough to fill most of thirteen years of schooling. That assumption is clearly false.
Denis Dutton: The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution | bookforum.com
Dutton is far more preoccupied with the Darwinian thrust of his argument than with its implications for the understanding of art.
Are Our Brains Becoming “Googlized?”
if the brain has this ability to remap new functions into low traffic areas of our cortex, are we in fact remapping our brains to be more adept in navigating online spaces? Carr contends that our attention spans are getting shorter and he worries that so
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