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Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.
Sven Birkerts The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
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Everything in contemporary society discourages interiority. More and more of our exchanges take place via circuits, and in their very nature those interactions are such as to keep us hovering in the virtual now, a place away from ourselves.
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The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age

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