Is Information Our New God?
Information technology and its effect on the way we think and feel is a crucial issue in our time. In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Lyotard wrote, "It is con…
Information technology and its effect on the way we think and feel is a crucial issue in our time. In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge, Lyotard wrote, "It is con…
I don't want to sound like an old stodgy codger (even though I am an old stodgy codger) but it seems to me that this lack of narrative finality really hampers the genre. Like video games the…
"Volunteer adjuncts" " it is a term so absurdly reprehensible it sounds like the stuff of parody. Despite what graduate students may gain over the course of their studies, they owe nothing w…
"How can you be a dictator without your sacred text, without a document to show your word is law?" From Lenin's dense treatises and Hitler's notorious memoir, through Mao's "little red book"…
"In the week to come, I received one of those public Twitter and Facebook shamings that writers now expect as an occupational hazard. Hundreds or possibly thousands of people, including clos…
Toward the end of act one of Harvey Fierstein's new Broadway play, "Casa Valentina," the play's dramatic instigator, Charlotte, tries to convince the other cross-dressers staying at the Cats…