![]() ![]() However, I do not experience any self-conscious or interfering moment in acknowledgment of the medium. I realize, and accept, that each and every one of these letters has to go through an invisible coding process before it rematerializes in decipherable visual form. This is an electronic machine, not a typewriter and so, admittedly, the impact is not direct from small-motor action to impression of ink on paper. But the situation of writing, in my mind, has not changed with the shift in medium. ![]() Like most of you reading these words, I am spending a lot more time on the Web. Then, just last year, within two months of launching this CRC site, I published my first novel, a thriller - as an e-book. “ Raw metrics will never be enough to tell us about the success or failure of a piece of scholarship.” - Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Planned Obsolescence, p.193.Ī statement of fact, not self-aggrandizement: Since 1978, I have been writing and publishing books in the ‘analog’ world – poetry, translations, nonfiction, biography, American history, art history, cultural anthropology. ![]() The CRC December 2011 Spotlight Review – by Neil Baldwin and a Letter in Response from Gary Hall About a Revolutionary Open-Access e-Book Project NovemKathleen Fitzpatrick’s Essential New Book – Planned Obsolescence: Publishing, Technology, and the Future of the Academy. ![]()
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