Comments on: Print Killed Authenticity http://matthewwettergreen.com/2010/01/13/print-killed-authenticity/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:04:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Doddz http://matthewwettergreen.com/2010/01/13/print-killed-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Doddz Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:51:50 +0000 http://matthewwettergreen.com/?p=838#comment-283 By the way, I love these posts. They get me thinking about my favorite topics. Be prepared for more reparte! By the way, I love these posts. They get me thinking about my favorite topics. Be prepared for more reparte!

]]> By: Doddz http://matthewwettergreen.com/2010/01/13/print-killed-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-282 Doddz Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:48:17 +0000 http://matthewwettergreen.com/?p=838#comment-282 Actually the quote is Print Killed Architecture. In the second chapter of the Hunchback of Notre dame, Victor Hugo says famously "This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice." Across time and culture the greatest symbols of human culture and achievement have been inscribed into architecture. Pyramids, Temples, and the Great Gothic cathedrals were more vessels of symbolic communication to the masses than sheltered spaces. The arrival for the press and the availability of easy symbolic literacy Hugo claims, removes what was Architecture's power to communicate the sublime for good. Now the Cathedrals are truly only buildings. But moving on. I would be wary of what kind of truth and authenticity is innate to spoken words...There is an innate originality to spoken language, that then becomes translated into text, and re-translated by the reader but as for the authenticity of the content, that's a totally different matter. Hitler, Bush and plenty other good orators deliver a very suspicious type of truth, no? And as for credentials? What does a PHd in Bioengineering have to back up his opinions on literature, culture and art? :) Actually the quote is Print Killed Architecture. In the second chapter of the Hunchback of Notre dame, Victor Hugo says famously “This will kill that. The book will kill the edifice.” Across time and culture the greatest symbols of human culture and achievement have been inscribed into architecture. Pyramids, Temples, and the Great Gothic cathedrals were more vessels of symbolic communication to the masses than sheltered spaces. The arrival for the press and the availability of easy symbolic literacy Hugo claims, removes what was Architecture’s power to communicate the sublime for good. Now the Cathedrals are truly only buildings. But moving on.

I would be wary of what kind of truth and authenticity is innate to spoken words…There is an innate originality to spoken language, that then becomes translated into text, and re-translated by the reader but as for the authenticity of the content, that’s a totally different matter. Hitler, Bush and plenty other good orators deliver a very suspicious type of truth, no? And as for credentials? What does a PHd in Bioengineering have to back up his opinions on literature, culture and art? :)

]]> By: matthew http://matthewwettergreen.com/2010/01/13/print-killed-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-227 matthew Fri, 15 Jan 2010 00:02:02 +0000 http://matthewwettergreen.com/?p=838#comment-227 And that's the joy of the internet. And that’s the joy of the internet.

]]> By: Jeremy Osborn http://matthewwettergreen.com/2010/01/13/print-killed-authenticity/comment-page-1/#comment-226 Jeremy Osborn Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:08:45 +0000 http://matthewwettergreen.com/?p=838#comment-226 See I don't have to audit the course. SWEET! I'm going to read this again tonight in my bathrobe and half drunk on rum :-) See I don’t have to audit the course. SWEET! I’m going to read this again tonight in my bathrobe and half drunk on rum :-)

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