A cloaking robe of elvenkind hangs in my wardrobe behind All those things that mother said were proper for a boy And I know I could not say why On this summer evening Sixteen books on magic spells stacked below the cloak of elves And sixteen books on magic spells so elegantly bound And I …
Monthly Archives: December 2007
Technological determinism/cybernetic humanism
It was bound to happen. Somebody, somewhere, was going to accuse me of being a technological determinist. Maybe it’s because of the way I say–over and over again–how this or that technology “influences” this or “shapes” that. Maybe it’s because of my passionate defense of the aesthetic styles of others who have–rightly or not–been accused …
