Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age

by Sven Birkerts

Book Overview

Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovation In 1994, Sven Birkerts published The Gutenberg Elegies , his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might affect the way we read literature and experience art--the very cultural activities that make us human. After two decades of rampant change, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555977219
• ISBN13: 9781555977214
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"