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This Saturday, 20 June, at @verdur_in I'll have the great pleasure of joining a discussion with Kit Wilson, @ghostofchristo1, Alison Brady and Nick Hostettler on "The Problem of Literacy".
I'll be speaking about Homer, for whom literacy was already both promise and problem.
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@Bartzissey on how JG Ballard's troubling futures are becoming our present.
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And @casertron3000 on how the new disease apocalypse will fade away and suffering will continue.
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Daniel Hadas retweeted
Next weekend, 20 June, we're talking about the "crisis" of literacy, with Kit Wilson, Edmund King, Daniel Hadas, et al.
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Lives matter. People don't.
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This week @CAmericain_mag —
@Paul_Heron_ takes us down the desert highways of Baudrillard's 'America'.
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And Frederick Attenborough of @ComAcFreedom laments the managerial yoke placed on the neck of British universities.
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Do you really need that poem?
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"The change of Philomel, by the barbarous king
So rudely forced; yet there the nightingale
Filled all the desert with inviolable voice
And still she cried, and still the world pursues".
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There's a 15th-century Latin play all about it—to be performed in the original Latin in London on 11 June.
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Details and booking link -
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Coming up at Verdurin: Out of Print, or the problem of literacy
Where does literacy begin and end? We take the Iliad to be the foundation of literary culture, but such texts stem from an oral tradition, embodied and mutable. Writing a ‘definitive’ version brings permanence, but does the artefact thus become a monolith, effectively spelling the word’s end?
Technology gets the blame today for us no longer reading enough, not writing well, and failing to parse the written word. Yet already in the nineteenth century, Nietzsche bemoaned mass literacy. AI read-write tools make authenticity a premium, while the Chinese state is investing in the promotion of reading as a geopolitical tactic.
Are reading and writing, therefore, a battleground of both our tastes and resources? These questions are the haunting of language itself.
With contributions from Edmund King @ghostofchristo1, Alison Brady, @kitwilsonwriter, @danielhadas2, and aesthetic interruptions, Out of Print will examine the ostensible crisis of reading in our age in literary, philosophical, historical, and sociological forms.
📅 20 June, 2-6pm
📍 Verdurin, Hoxton
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@HusseinAboubak argues the US Democratic Party's embrace of anti-Zionism will cause a descent into ideological disaster.
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And @Musenfreund on the German Social Democrats' crippling inability to supplement Karl Marx with Karl Popper.
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Daniel Hadas retweeted
Coming up at Verdurin: Out of Print, or the problem of literacy
Where does literacy begin and end? We take the Iliad to be the foundation of literary culture, but such texts stem from an oral tradition, embodied and mutable. Writing a ‘definitive’ version brings permanence, but does the artefact thus become a monolith, effectively spelling the word’s end?
In reading, words stand apart from their everyday significance. Already in the fourth century, Augustine found Saint Ambrose reading silently startling. The evolution of writing techniques — from Gutenberg to HTML — only fuels their continued abstraction.
Technology gets the blame today for us no longer reading enough, not writing well, and, worst of all, failing to parse the written word. Yet already in the nineteenth century, Nietzsche bemoaned mass literacy. AI read-write tools make authenticity a premium, while the Chinese state is investing in the promotion of reading as a geopolitical tactic.
Are reading and writing, therefore, a battleground of both our tastes and resources? These questions are the haunting of language itself.
With contributions from Edmund King @ghostofchristo1, Alison Brady, @kitwilsonwriter, @danielhadas2, and aesthetic interruptions, Out of Print will examine the ostensible crisis of reading in our age in literary, philosophical, historical, and sociological forms.
📅 20 June, 2-6pm
🎟️ verdur.in/event/out-of-print…
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