In the upcoming issue of The New York Times Book Review -- apparently the cover-review -- former The New Republic-literary editor Leon Wieseltier writes, very much, from Among the Disrupted.
Despite being sympathetic to what he's arguing for/about, this still sounds to me more like sour grapes than a winning argument:
Despite being sympathetic to what he's arguing for/about, this still sounds to me more like sour grapes than a winning argument:
Aside from issues of life and death, there is no more urgent task for American intellectuals and writers than to think critically about the salience, even the tyranny, of technology in individual and collective life. All revolutions exaggerate, and the digital revolution is no different. We are still in the middle of the great transformation, but it is not too early to begin to expose the exaggerations, and to sort out the continuities from the discontinuities. The burden of proof falls on the revolutionaries, and their success in the marketplace is not sufficient proof. Presumptions of obsolescence, which are often nothing more than the marketing techniques of corporate behemoths, need to be scrupulously examined.