Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 33, No. 259.
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        Date: 2019-09-19 20:19:31+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty 
        Subject: once upon a time

> There was a time when the Internet seemed to promise the world to the
> world. When it appeared to be opening up a benign, infinite network
> of possibilities, in which everyone was enfranchised and newly
> accessible to one another as they were drawn, in one of Jia
> Tolentino’s many felicitous phrases, to the “puddles and blossoms of
> other people’s curiosity and expertise.” It would be a world in which
> hierarchies in whatever guise would be upended, a democratic forum to
> rival and exceed the philosophical marketplace of ancient Greece (no
> exclusion of anyone, not women, not slaves). At the very least, it
> was a place where, because you could be sure that someone out there
> was listening, you would find yourself able to articulate the
> thoughts that, for lack of an audience, had previously threatened to
> remain forever unspoken, stuck to the tip of your tongue.

Thus begins Jacqueline Rose's "Song of my self-care", New York Review of
Books, 10 October
(https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2019/10/10/jia-tolentino-song-my-self-care/),
reviewing Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
by Jia Tolentino.

Read on.

Yours,
WM


--
Willard McCarty (www.mccarty.org.uk/),
Professor emeritus, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College
London; Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews
(www.tandfonline.com/loi/yisr20) and Humanist (www.dhhumanist.org)




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