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Rabelais, he says, is the first writer of the age of print. Just as Luther is the last writer of the manuscript age. Of course, he says, without print Luther would have remained a simple heretical monk. Print, he says, scooping up the froth from his cup, made Luther the power he became, but essentially he was a preacher, not a writer. He knew his audience and wrote for it. Rabelais, though, he says, sucking his spoon, understood what this new miracle of print meant for the writer. It meant you had gained the world and lost your audience. You no longer knew who was reading you or why. You no longer knew who you were writing for or even why you were writing. Rabelais, he says, raged at this and laughed at it and relished it, all at the same time. Gabriel Josipovici from Everything Passes

john baker, January 2nd, 2009. 2 comments. Filed under politics.

Another attempt to chip away at government’s sly emotional appeal of “If you’ve done nothing wrong, you’ve got nothing to fear”:

Dick says:

6th January 2009 at 7:44 am

Subtle, insidious propaganda from know-nothing anarchists. In a just society, one with regulated email and internet, they’d be denied a voice…

jb says: Hush; the world is sleeping.
online Geld verdienen says:

7th January 2009 at 12:30 pm

A very nice page. It’s fun to read here. I have bookmark your site.

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