{"id":5199,"date":"2014-10-06T23:59:11","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T05:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5199"},"modified":"2014-10-07T00:02:08","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T06:02:08","slug":"the-one-who-searches-and-destroys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=5199","title":{"rendered":"The one who searches and destroys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/428px-Charles_Demuth_-_Figure_5.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5200\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/428px-Charles_Demuth_-_Figure_5.png?resize=500%2C189&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"428px-Charles_Demuth_-_Figure_5\" width=\"500\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/428px-Charles_Demuth_-_Figure_5.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/428px-Charles_Demuth_-_Figure_5.png?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I skimmed Will Self&#8217;s essay &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2014\/oct\/03\/fate-literary-culture-sealed-internet-will-self\">The Fate of Our Literary Culture Is Sealed<\/a>.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what I picked up:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>tossed from wave to wave of language as we relapse into the wordsea<\/p>\n<p>no forensic or analytic account of reading can do justice to the strange interplay between levels of reality we apprehend when we<\/p>\n<p>or the street map of Dublin<\/p>\n<p>the reader strives to see in them, see through them, and to discern the connections between them<\/p>\n<p>what it might be like to not have to read deeply at all<\/p>\n<p>finding in digital reading new forms of stimulus and<\/p>\n<p>valorisation of the printed word \u2013 its fusty scent, its silk, its heft \u2013 is a rearguard action<\/p>\n<p>words and revenue<\/p>\n<p>not only did the reviews in the quality press mean something<\/p>\n<p>one big, thick pipeline carrying half the revenue from British retail book sales disappears deep into\u00a0Jeff<\/p>\n<p>exactly the same iron laws of supply and demand<\/p>\n<p>church was a repository of scholarship for its own sake<\/p>\n<p>academics publishing online\u00a0in order to secure professional advancement,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just want to\u00a0be misunderstood&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>and use digital media to develop new forms of understanding<\/p>\n<p>effectively, a monetised intellectual prosthesis<\/p>\n<p>were this resource to be truly incapable of being owned, then yes, the tweeting Arab Spring might have culminated in a warm<\/p>\n<p>a global field<\/p>\n<p>none of this, however,<\/p>\n<p>no going back<\/p>\n<p>no point<\/p>\n<p>supply<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I skimmed Will Self&#8217;s essay &#8220;The Fate of Our Literary Culture Is Sealed.&#8221; Here&#8217;s what I picked up: tossed from wave to wave of language as we relapse into the wordsea no forensic or analytic account of reading can do justice to the strange interplay between levels of reality we apprehend when we or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5199"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5203,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5199\/revisions\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}