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  internet culture
And as instrumental, the Net is a tool, perhaps merely a tool or at least a tool that does not harbor profoundly good or evil values.
One is possibly saved from the giddy whirl by the ``ambiguous essence of technology.'' Although one can succumb to the supreme danger, one can alternatively reflect that the coming to presence of technology harbors in itself what we least suspect, the possible upsurgence of the saving power.
As noted at the essay's beginning, Heidegger fancied that he had discovered a level of Being from which he could launch a decisive attack against technology, a level deeper than a suggestion that it harbors good or bad value commitments.
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 Classic Cafes | Links   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
We are not the sort to refuse all knowledge of the customs of another age; but, in our strolling, let us not forget our rights and our obligations as citizens.
Sitting in these places, one has the illusion of a time gone by when life had a slower pace, people cared about quality and integrity, and life's pleasures were more simple and innocent...
According to John Burnett, this trend represents a 'cold drinks revolution', a transformation in our Liquid Pleasures comparable in scale to the 'hot beverages revolution' of the late-seventeenth century.
www.classiccafes.co.uk /Links.html   (2838 words)

  
 ebrINFO: contributors
He is the author of three books, the latest of which is a history of comic books: Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels (Phaidon).
In ebr7 he compares "Comics on the Web" to the pleasures of reading printed comics and interviews cartoonist Dave McKean.
He also writes essays and criticism on topics in visual culture, and is the author of The Book Maker's Desire, a collection of essays on topics in the book arts.
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 Ephemera Society of America
Victorian pleasures: American board and table games of the nineteenth century from the Liman collection.
New York: Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, 1991.
New York: Privately printed at the Harbor Press, 1928.
www.ephemerasociety.org /bibliography.html   (1586 words)

  
 WriteDesign On-Line - Quotes
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure - Mikhail Baryshnikov
What is art but a way of seeing?
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