On the Degeneration of Attentiveness
Critic Nicholas Carr talks about how technology-driven trends affect our cultural and personal lives. (56 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 108
FEATURED GUESTS: Thomas Albert Howard, Jean Porter, Peter Augustine Lawler, Hans Boersma, Felicia Wu Song, and Elias Aboujaoude
Digital equality and the untuning of the world
Lee Siegel analyzes how web-based pursuits of unique identity is so unbounded that personal definition becomes impossible.
A culture of one
Andrew Keen argues that the survival of the very best forms of cultural expression, in journalism, music, fiction, and other disciplines, requires a network of mediation and accreditation.