[80] in magellan
TUE 9 MARCH 5 PM: 'HISTORY AND LIT IN CYBERSPACE'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Anderson)
Mon Mar 8 08:56:04 1999
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 08:54:13 -0500
To: itlt@mit.edu, magellan@mit.edu
From: Greg Anderson <ganderso@MIT.EDU>
FYI.
Greg
>From: David Thorburn <thorburn@MIT.EDU>
>Subject: TUE 9 MARCH 5 PM: 'HISTORY AND LIT IN CYBERSPACE'
>To: MITCF@mitvma.mit.edu
>
>Lecture in Comparative Media Studies
>
>JAMES O'DONNELL
>Tuesday, March 9
>5pm
>MIT Room 4-237
>
>"The Future of the Past: history and literature in cyberspace"
>
>Technology changes the past as well as the future. Cuneiform tablets
>don't have the glossy high-tech look and feel they must have once held
>for their users. When the printed book was the only way to explore
>the wonders of the planet, the written word's descriptive powers were
>paramount: the same book that once opened doors now seems quaint and
>obscure. This talk explores some historic examples of
>change in perspective brought about by change in technology, extracts a
>few theoretical observations, and seeks to employ them in thinking
>about our present situation.
>
>James J. O'Donnell is Professor of Classical Studies and Vice Provost
>for Information Systems and Computing at the University of Pennsylvania,
>where he has taught since 1981. He holds degrees from Princeton and Yale and
>has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean
>world as well as, more recently, implications of information technology for
>teaching and learning. His most recent book is "Avatars of the Word:
>From Papyrus to Cyberspace" (Harvard Univ. Press, 1998).
>
