17.792 Camille Paglia on image

From: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk)
Date: Fri May 07 2004 - 16:54:46 EDT

  • Next message: Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty

                   Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 17, No. 792.
           Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
                       www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
                            www.princeton.edu/humanist/
                         Submit to: humanist@princeton.edu

             Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:17:17 +0100
             From: Ross Scaife <scaife@UKY.EDU>
             Subject: Camille Paglia on image

    (from the Explorator newsletter)

    Begin forwarded message:

    Camille Paglia has an interesting essay on the changing nature of the
    'image' in modern culture:

    http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=12923

    "The new generation, raised on TV and the personal computer but
    deprived of a solid primary education, has become unmoored from the
    mother ship of culture. Technology, like Kubrick's rogue computer, HAL,
    is the companionable servant turned ruthless master. The ironically
    self-referential or overtly politicized and jargon-ridden paradigms of
    higher education, far from helping the young to cope or develop, have
    worsened their vertigo and free fall."



    This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Fri May 07 2004 - 16:54:32 EDT