"...it is a principal task of a successful modern university to teach people how to read [big, difficult, flawed, incredibly insightful, genius books]. Indeed, it might be said that one of the few key competencies we here at the university have to teach—our counterpart or the medieval triad of rhetoric, logic, grammar and then quadriad … Continue reading How to Read Big Books
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The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology by L. M. Sacasas
"In the fall of 2009, as the age of blogs was already fading, I launched The Frailest Thing as a space to think out loud as I worked my way through a graduate program in technology studies. In the years since, I sought to think about the challenges posed by emerging technologies, particularly digital media, … Continue reading The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology by L. M. Sacasas
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