For an Apocalyptic Pedagogy – Levi R. Bryant

Today, perhaps more than ever, the possibility of apocalypse is the most urgent horizon of thought. While the destruction of the planet and the end of humanity as a result of divine intervention have always been thinkable, these scenarios always seemed to belong to the realm of fantasy. What distinguishes our age is that apocalypse, or the utter destruction of the planet now belongs to the realm of real possibility.

Annotation, Navigation, Electronic Editions – Bernard Stiegler

Manuscript parchment or printing paper are static supports. Yet with the advent of digitization, the text is coming to know a new epoch: that of dynamic supports where the reader “naturally” merges with the writing. SGML pertains precisely to this advent of digitization…

Let Us Now Stand Up For Bastards – Eileen A. Joy

In her essay “Pixel Dust: Illusions of Innovation in Scholarly Publishing,” published in the Los Angeles Review of Books last January, Johanna Drucker cautioned against what she calls “the hyped myths of digital publishing.”