CHANGING THE SUBJECT

Trenchant, expansive essays on the cultural consequences of ongoing, all-permeating technological innovationIn 1994, Sven Birkerts p ublished The Gutenberg Elegies, his celebrated rallying cry to resist the oncoming digital advances, especially those that might aff ect the way we read literature and experience art--the very cultural activities that make us human.After two decades of rampant chan ge, Birkerts has allowed a degree of everyday digital technology into his life. He refuses to use a smartphone, but communicates via e-mail ...[Read more]