An interesting article from the Chronicle of Higher Education about the corrupting influence of today's communication technologies on our capacity for alone time. "If Lionel Trilling was right, if the property that grounded the self, in Romanticism, was sincerity, and in modernism it was authenticity, then in postmodernism it is visibility."
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"To see the internet only as a extension of the possibility of communication is an extreme oversimplification, seen from an Existential point of view the internet gives the possibility to be alone with other people." - Jens Haaning, 1999
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