Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (914 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1501132679 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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In 2005, Heffernan (with cowriter Mike Albo) published the cult comic novel The Underminer (Bloomsbury). Virginia Heffernan writes regularly about digital culture for The New York Times Magazine. . In 2002, she received her PhD in English Literature from Harvard
Magic and Loss Review In the description above for this book, "Magic and Loss", it says that Heffernan reveals the Internet in a way that Marshall McLuhan awakened our imaginations in his work on media--a pretty hefty claim. In ordering this book, I had the high expectation that I would read something deeply insightful, philosophical, and thought-provoking. The Internet as art? I loved the idea!But, I would definitely consider this book a very light, enjoyable read. The author's sentences, diction, and craft all come across as professional, enlightening, an. I'm so glad the designers made a book that feels good (literally Finally, a witty book about the Internet! This one gets past the sanctimony and the scare tactics to help us all understand why we are so in awe of our devices--and so resentful. I'm glad the designers made a book that feels good (literally: it has little bumps!) because it feels good to read this, an answer to questions you didn't even know you had. I love it. I'm grateful for having such a pleasant, smart, and useful read. I'm giving it to friends for beach reading. I guarantee they will be reading passages out loud to friends (all o. If you're tired of hearing about how smart phones are destroying the very fabric of civilization--and the If you're tired of hearing about how smart phones are destroying the very fabric of civilization--and the kids are all "addicted"--this is the book for you. Brilliant contrarian and stylist extraordinaire Virginia Heffernan goes high and low in this part memoir/part philosophical treatise on how and why she loves the internet. For Heffernan, Twitter is a poet's paradise and youtube has revolutionized the moving image. Dip in and out or read it in one fell swoop. Either way, you will not be disappointed.
In this deep and thoughtful book, Virginia Heffernan reveals the logic and aesthetics behind the Internet, just as Susan Sontag did for photography and Marshall McLuhan did for television.Life online, in the highly visual, social, portable, and global incarnation rewards certain virtues. The new medium favors speed, accuracy, wit, prolificacy, and versatility, and its form and functions are changing how we perceive, experience, and understand the world. Virginia Heffernan “melds the personal with the increasingly universal in a highly informative analysis of what the Internet is—and can be. As an idea, it rivals monotheism. But its cultural potential and its societal impact often elude us. “Magic and Loss is an illuminating guide to the Internetit is impossible to come away from this book without sharing some of Heffernan’s awe for this brave new world” (The Wall Street Journal)..
I love it. You might get an epiphany, like I did, of what a masterpiece this internet thing is. Thomas Aquinas, Liz Phair, Richard Rorty, Beyoncé, and the pairing of Dante and Steve Jobs, two ‘labile romantics.’ Whether writing about how the Kindle changed reading, how the iPod and iPhone changed listening, or how the demise of landline telephones changed communicating, Heffernan goes right to the heart of the lived experience Virginia Heffernan quotes Harold Bloom to the effect that ‘to behold is a tragic posture; to observe is an ethical one.’ In Magic and Loss, she observes, in the best sense of the word.”—Ben Yagoda, author of The B-Side and How to Not Write Bad"Goddamn, Virginia Heffernan is brilliant."—Lenny Letter“Heffernan is a new species of wizard, able to perform literary mag