the graphic presence of text after the internet

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‘the graphic presence of text after the internet’ what does that even mean?

you guys

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‘after the internet...’

‘...complete embeddedness in an ubiquitous network culture... We live in a time subsequent to the internet’s saturation of most of the world’s surface area and human population, and of our individual consciousness.’

(Michael Connor, You Are Here: Art after the Internet, p57)

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‘text’...

...the ways we use written language for communication in an ‘open’ or published manner.

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‘graphic presence...’

... visual presentation of written language.

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so my question is:

how is the influence of the internet affecting the ways we use written language, and its visual presentation?

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For centuries, back to a time which probably cannot be traced, the power of the written word has proved to be something incontrovertibly sublime. The wri...

Susannah Meyer (Huffington Post)

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Internet Everywhere means that our old conception of the world separated into an online and an offline space is no longer relevant.

Nathan Jurgenson (via emmakingeek)

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The omnipresent influence of the internet means that online and offline bleed into each other naturally, as one is always existing in response to the other.

So it’s important to look at how both new and old media are responding...

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‘We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backwards into the future.’

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Massage, 1967

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Reading a book was a meditative act, but it didn’t involve a clearing of the mind. Readers disengaged their attention from the outward flow of passing stimuli in order to engage it more deeply with an inward flow of words, ideas, and emotions. That was - and is - the essence of the unique mental process of deep reading.

Nicholas Carr, The Shallows (via teachingliteracy)

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Slogans for the Early 21st Century

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Douglas Coupland - ‘Slogans for the 21st Century’

“If you were to attach a stick to each of these slogans and carry them in the street, would they read as protest or would they read as complicit guilt? For example, twenty years from now, were I to look at a picture of someone holding up a slogan reading ‘being middle class was fun,’ would that read as heartbreaking prescience or as rational acceptance of a by-then sociological certainty?” - Artist Statement

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James Bridle

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‘I know people don’t read books like they used to, and they don’t think like they used to, but I struggle to care. Most of this talk is pure nostalgia, a kind of mostly knee-jerk, mostly uncritical (although not thoughtless) response to entirely rational fears about technological opacity and complexity... But this understandable reaction also erases all the new and different modes of attention and thought which, while they are difficult to articulate because we are still developing and discovering the language to articulate them with, are nonetheless present and growing within us. And I simply do not see the damage that is ascribed to this perceived “loss” – I don’t see the generations coming up being any less engaged in culture and society, reading less, thinking less...’

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‘unlike the common perception of what we do when we waste time on the internet, I wasn’t watching cat videos — well maybe one or two. I was actually interested in the things I stumbled upon.’

Kenneth Goldsmith Wasting time on the Internet 2016