"On Sept. 7, 1695, the pirate ship Fancy, commanded by Every, ambushed and captured the Ganj-i-Sawai, a royal vessel owned by Indian emperor Aurangzeb, then one of the world's most powerful men. Aboard were not only the worshipers returning from their pilgrimage, but tens of millions of dollars' worth of gold and silver.What followed was … Continue reading Enemy of All Mankind
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A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
"If the past emergence of newspapers was ‘linked to the liberation of the national bourgeoisie’, where is the social media era leading us?(AM): The social media era has already led us to what Martin Gurri has called ‘the revolt of the public ’. I have described this process as the emancipation of authorship. Before the … Continue reading A New Orality is Coming to Replace Old Literacy
