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Birkerts, Sven
Sven Birkerts 1951–
American essayist and critic.
The following entry presents an overview of Birkerts's career through 1996.
The author of An Artificial Wilderness (1987) and The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), Birkerts is a self-described "amateur" literary critic, who received a citation in excellence in book reviewing from the National Book Critics Circle in 1986. Though not formally trained in criticism nor espousing any particular academic theory in his approach to literature, Birkerts has established a reputation for arguing his positions with passion, clarity, and eloquence, both provoking and welcoming debate about his ideas. His extensive reading (usually in English translation) has qualified him to critique European, Russian, and Latin American literature, producing a critical discourse that not only acknowledges the talents of such literary luminaries as Heinrich Böll, Marguerite Yourcenar, and Jorge Luis Borges, but also recommends the merits of such lesser-known writers as Robert Musil and Erich Heller. Birkerts's critical purview also has extended to matters dealing with the relationship between society and technology in late-twentieth century civilization, specifically in terms of the art of reading, the printed word, and the proliferation of electronic media. Intrigued by the freshness and range of Birkerts's thought, critics generally have admired the simple, quotidian language and style of his essays, although a few have claimed that his literary exegeses neglect problems germane to translated texts and that his cautionary essays about "the fate of the book" often betray profound nostalgia.
Biographical Information
Born in Pontiac, Michigan, Birkerts attended the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in English in 1973. Upon graduating, he stayed in Ann Arbor and worked as a clerk in bookstores there, and later, at Cambridge, Massachusetts, until 1983; he has credited his bookstore experiences for prompting his voracious reading habit, remarking that "I chewed my sandwich with an open book in my lap." Meanwhile, Birkerts contributed book reviews and critical essays on world literature to such periodicals as New Republic, Mirabella, and the Boston Review, serving the latter publication as contributing editor since 1988. In 1984, Birkerts accepted an invitation to join the faculty at Harvard University as a lecturer in expository writing, a po-sition he held until 1991. Following his National Book Critics Circle award, he published his first book, An Artificial Wilderness (1987), a collection comprised mostly of book reviews first published over a seven-year period during the 1980s. For his second book, The Electric Life (1989), Birkerts won the P.E.N. Award for Distinguished Essays in 1990. A prolific contributor of articles and book reviews to numerous periodicals, he collected some of these in American Energies (1992), which deals exclusively with American fiction and writers. A defining moment of Birkerts's reputation came with the publication of his controversial essays in The Gutenberg Elegies. Subsequently, he assembled the essay collection Tolstoy's Dictaphone (1996), which presents opinions on the social effects of technological media. Birkerts, who has lectured extensively both in person and on-line, has taught writing part time at Emerson College in Boston since 1992.
Major Works
Birkerts's writings display a genuine fondness for literature as books (opposed to texts), an abiding respect for the printed word (opposed to electronic formats), and a minute attention to the act of reading words on paper (as opposed to on a screen). The thirty-nine essays collected in An Artificial Wilderness draw attention to the works of some of the world's notable twentieth-century writers whose works are available in English translation, including Joseph Roth, Osip Mandelstam, Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Primo Levi, Lars Gustafsson, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, and Julio Cortázar, among many others, notably excepting any contemporary American authors. The other essays in An Artificial Wilderness concern general cultural topics; for instance, the function of television in the creation of the "mass age." The title of The Electric Life alludes to a phrase found in Percy Bysshe Shelley's A Defence of Poetry (1821), which describes poetic language as "electric life that burns." The essays comprising The Electric Life concern the influence of electronic media on contemporary literacy and describe the contemporary social context for the art of poetry. Among the themes contemplated are the ways television informs late twentieth-century poetic language, the idea of poetic inspiration, the politics and aesthetics of poetry, and analyses of some individual poems and poets. American Energies, Birkerts's third collection of book reviews and critical essays, offers a general assessment of the contemporary American novel genre, which he finds weakened or "lightweight"—lacking depth and historical resonance of vision in comparison to previous generations of American novels—due to its coincidence with the technological boom in communications media. Divided into three parts, The Gutenberg Elegies, a collection of fifteen essays, concerns the place of reading in society, centering on changes occurring in print and electronic media and the threat to the act of reading occasioned by these changes. The essays comprising the first section, "The Reading Self," are largely autobiographical, dealing with Birkerts's own reading experiences that illuminate the dynamics of reading. In the second section, "The Electronic Millennium," the essays examine the question of how reading, or the interpretation of texts, changes in an electronic environment. The last section, "Critical Mass: Three Meditations," addresses changes in the culture at large with respect to the quality of literary or intellectual life, the so-called "death of literature," and the ways in which technology has affected the role of the serious writer. Tolstoy's Dictaphone, an essay collection edited by Birkerts, features twenty articles by "writers who use and have been used by today's electronic machinery," as Cliff Stoll has described them, each one reflecting the tension that frequently exists when technology impinges upon social intercourse.
Critical Reception
Birkerts generally has impressed critics with his breadth of knowledge of world literature as well as with his common language and cogent, direct style as an essayist and literary critic. As David Holmstrom put it, "Birkerts brokers his analysis on the reader with a sharply reasoned but calm style." Birkerts's critical acumen, though esteemed as it is in most literary circles, has prompted a vigorous debate about the demise of print-oriented culture in the face of explosive developments in electronic modes of communication. Although many commentators frequently have pointed out Birkerts's evident bias for the printed word and often have cited what Wulf D. Rehder has called "falling in love with our own nostalgia" as the principal defect of the tone of his thought, the majority also have responded to the inherent value of Birkerts's insights, particularly those expressed in The Gutenberg Elegies. "There is no denying that Birkerts' quiver of arguments contains many sharp arrows that are, like Cupid's, dipped in such a sweet poison of persuasion and passion and appeal that, once hit, we might want to give in to their narcotic effect," Rehder has stated. "That Birkerts proves so open to attack," Andy Solomon has observed, "is far more a testament to the courageously vast sweep of his polemic than to the disputable validity of his argument," suggesting that Birkerts's way of thinking and style of writing invites the reader "to synthesize a new, deepened understanding of our own relationships to the printed and electronically transmitted word." Gesturing toward the significance of Birkerts's contribution of The Gutenberg Elegies "to our ongoing discussion of the nature of the continuing electronic revolution and its impact on the nature of the process by which we 'read' and acquire information, knowledge, and wisdom," Norman D. Stevens has asserted that "in the long run, we will all be the poorer if we fail to take [Birkerts's] insights into account as we design and implement electronic alternatives to the book."
Principal Works
An Artificial Wilderness: Essays on Twentieth-Century Literature (essays) 1987
The Electric Life: Essays on Modern Poetry (essays) 1989
Writing Well [with Donald Hall] (criticism) 1991
American Energies: Contemporary Fiction (essays) 1992
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (essays) 1994
Tolstoy's Dictaphone: Technology and the Muse [editor] (criticism) 1996
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SOURCE: "Television: The Medium in the Mass Age," in Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXII, No. 4, Fall, 1983, pp. 619-32.
[In the following essay, Birkerts ponders (he role of television in contemporary society, describing its "consciousness" with respect to the social implications of "watching" it.]
No one who has walked through the excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii is likely to forget the oppressiveness of the experience, far outweighing its historical fascination or its cachet as future table talk. The dreariness of a George Segal sculpture has been multiplied a thousandfold: the heavy seal of Time has been impressed upon the ordinariness of daily life. We are suddenly able to imagine our lives embalmed at a casual moment. Indeed, I sometimes wonder what hypothetical aliens might find if our planet were surprised by an avalanche of ash—especially if their craft landed, years hence, somewhere on our shores. I try to imagine their exclamations, their cries of puzzlement, as they go from house to house. I envision through their eyes the petrified, white-washed figures, their arrangement—singly, in groups—some four to eight feet from a prominent up-ended box. There would be boxes with horns, boxes without. Gender markings? The more enlightened among them would shake their heads. "These are clearly religious objects, domestic shrines. We have found the remains of a very spiritual race."
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SOURCE: A review of An Artificial Wilderness, in Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 30, 1987, p. 4.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Miles admires the range of Birkerts's literary knowledge.]
This is too cruel, but I will do it. One of the books reviewed in this collection of Sven Birkerts's book reviews and other short essays is a similar collection by George Steiner, of which Birkerts writes: "When I heard that Oxford University Press was issuing George Steiner: A Reader (1984), I was distressed to see that venerable old house giving in to the bonbon sampler trend—and shocked to find Steiner a party to the deed." Obviously, Birkerts has been party to just such a deed at Morrow; but readers who have been reading and enjoying his work here and there without knowing anything about him will not be distressed.
Birkerts, we learn in the introduction to the collection, fell in love with literature in an Ann Arbor bookstore, not in the classroom. He worked in that and other bookstores for years, defining his "field" as he went. And where he went, before too long, was to contemporary literature written outside the United States. The result, as the years passed, was that he became an unofficial or informal authority on European, Russian and Latin American literature, widely published and eventually invited to teach at Harvard University.
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SOURCE: "Truth in Transit," in The New York Times Book Review, November 8, 1987, p. 16.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Hall praises Birkerts's "urgent, serious, energetic voice" for celebrating non-American writers and books.]
Sven Birkerts shakes us by the shoulders, telling us what to read and how to read it. He urges Robert Musil on us, comparing him to Nietzsche: "We find in both the same impatience, the same determination to stay in motion, and the understanding that the truth is itself a process, its seeker forever embattled. We turn to Musil because he never lies to us and because he never hides from the unsightly implications of a particular thought." In An Artificial Wilderness, his first book, Mr. Birkerts's urgent, serious, energetic voice ranges over the world of modern letters—with passionate intelligence discovering, praising and recommending books and writers: many German-language novelists. Marguerite Yourcenar, Malcolm Lowry, Cyril Connolly, V. S. Naipaul and Derek Walcott together, Borges, Walter Benjamin.
This critic is above all a reader, even a book lover, without the props of pipe and tweed that once characterized these roles. Just now he teaches composition at Harvard but he is not an academic; he has spent a third of his life—I take him for 35 or so—working in bookstores: "I chewed my sandwich with an open book in my...
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SOURCE: "Collecting Cultural Evidence," in The Gettysburg Review, Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring, 1988, pp. 351-9.
[In the following excerpt, Pinsker evaluates Birkerts's style, range, and method in An Artificial Wilderness.]
Sven Birkerts, a voracious reader and reviewer, is "burdened" neither by the venerable reputations that Professors Marx and Brooks enjoy nor by the tortured jargon that infects so many of his contemporaries. He writes with independence and with style and surely deserves the citation he recently won from the National Book Critics Circle for excellence in reviewing.
An Artificial Wilderness is a collection of some thirty-nine pieces written over the last seven years. Birkerts is, above all else, a wide-ranging, extraordinarily catholic reader. Indeed, his table of contents reads like an international Who's Who of the most interesting twentieth-century writers: Robert Musil, Joseph Roth, Osip Mandelstam, Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Primo Levy, Lars Gustafsson, V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Julio Cortazar. Conspicuously absent, of course, are any contemporary American writers, but as Birkerts explains,
Though I had grown up on a steady diet of American moderns—Salinger, Heller, Mailer, Bellow, Percy, and others—I found that I was growing more and more dissatisfied with the local product. In this most...
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SOURCE: "Reading Sven Birkerts," in The Kenyon Review, Vol. 10, No. 3, Summer, 1988, pp. 124-27.
[In the following review of An Artificial Wilderness, Parini illuminates Birkerts's critical technique with respect to contemporary, academic criticism.]
"The arrow of modern life and the arrow of private sensibility have passed in opposite directions," writes Sven Birkerts, one of the most independent critics now writing in America, in his first collection of essays, An Artificial Wilderness. This remark is made in the course of an "appreciation" of Cyril Connolly, a critic who in many ways Birkerts himself recalls. Connolly is praised for his awareness of literature as part of a larger historical process: "Implicit in his valuations, supporting and authorizing them, was an active recognition of historical process. This awareness was at once particular—he grasped the dynamic interactions of person, place, and milieu—and relativistic." He sets this concern for context against the "prevailing thrust of critical theory," by which he presumably means the formalist strategies subsumed under the title of post-structuralism.
The flight from history to "language"—that is, to a disembodied system of signs, a resonating void wherein meaning flickers, tenuously, and fades into an infinitely recessive dark—clearly obsesses Birkerts, as well it should, though one wishes he defined...
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SOURCE: A review of An Artificial Wilderness, in World Literature Today, Vol. 63, No. 3, Summer, 1988, p. 515.
[In the following review, Brown appreciates the way Birkerts treats "literature as literature" in An Artificial Wilderness, outlining the contents of the book.]
Sven Birkerts began his career as a member of that menaced species, the bookseller whose passion is "the unpunished vice of reading," the bookseller who is also a talented man (or woman, like Sylvia Beach) of letters and whose shop is no Walden or Crown supermarket of perishable print but the equivalent of a literary salon. He carries on the tradition of an Edmund Wilson and writes, not for the specialist, but for the cultivated general reader. He deplores the jargon, the unreadability of much academic criticism. He insists that "literature is worth nothing if it can not help us make sense of our historical circumstance." He regrets that so many contemporary American writers have failed to do this and "have retreated … into the dumb affectlessness" of a Carver, of a Beattie. So he sought guidance elsewhere, in the work of Europeans like Milosz, Frisch, Kundera; and they, in their turn, led him back to their great predecessors, Musil, Benjamin, Mandelstam.
Like Larbaud before him, Birkerts proclaims himself "an amateur": "These essays are finally the arguments and enthusiasms of a reader. An amateur. They...
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SOURCE: A review of The Electric Life, in The New York Times Book Review, April 16, 1989, p. 2.
[In the following review, Benedict describes Birkerts's attitude toward poetry in The Electric Life as intellectually challenging yet provocatively open to debate.]
Sven Birkerts—who won considerable acclaim for his first book of literary criticism, An Artificial Wilderness, and who won the l996 National Book Critics Circle award for criticism—writes in a voice that veers between passionate harangue and smart-aleck banter. He is not too arrogant to engage the reader in debate, for even when he sounds contemptuous he leaves open a back door for disagreement, but he does tend to be annoyingly, though wittily, snide. "Poetry is now largely a face-saving operation, with poets pulling their bitterness inside out and preening themselves on their own uselessness," he writes in The Electric Life. Mr. Birkerts, who teaches at Harvard University, contemplates the declining state of literacy in our television-addicted age and tries to discover how, and if, poetry fits into our world. He discusses the ruinous effect of the electronic media on our minds, offers a reverential study of inspiration and conducts a rather precious debate on what makes poetry political. Mr. Birkerts then explores why he loves certain poems and, in brave defiance of academic tradition, attempts to find out what...
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SOURCE: "A Call to Authors: Explore Culture," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 84, August 17, 1992, p. 14.
[In the following interview, Birkerts expresses his attitude toward contemporary novelistic fiction and reading habits of the public.]
To stretch a comparison here, critic Sven Birkerts has approached what he sees as the weak cathedral of the American novel, and like Martin Luther with his 95 theses, has nailed a protest to the door.
In this case, the protest (really a summons) is directed at American novelists writing in the fields of minimalism, nostalgia, and the other sweet-smelling soaps of Post-Modernism. Mr. Birkerts wants them to return to the novel form that explores culture with depth and historical resonance.
His engaging new book, American Energies, contains his "summons" on page 150. It is a list of the attributes to be found in the works of "elder writers." followed by the "lite" attributes of younger writers.
Younger novelists fall short, says Birkerts, because their books are morally neutral, without depth, fragmented, and conceived ahistorically with everything taking place in the present. Character is implied without much social dimension, and the books end with insignificant resolutions.
Birkerts brokers his analysis on the reader with a sharply reasoned but calm style. No urgent shouting here; no...
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SOURCE: "Today's Novels Are Lightweight, Says Critic," in The Christian Science Monitor, Vol. 84, August 17, 1992, p. 14.
[In the following review, Holmstrom concentrates on a question of excellence that he believes is implied by Birkerts's arguments in American Energies.]
After a reader turns the last page of Sven Birkerts's American Energies, a question comes quickly to thought: Is there any effort left in the United States to be excellent? Not to win, not to have the most, or be the biggest, or the quickest, but to be excellent?
Birkerts's collection of essays on what he sees as the weakened condition of American novels is not directly about excellence.
It's the lack of depth and resonance in novels that worries him. As a reflection of an American culture spun into confection by technology, he argues, mostly lightweight novels are being written now. While my guess is that he would validate the pursuit of excellence as worthy even in novels, the desire for excellence is a characteristic, not a vision.
But inadvertently, Birkerts suggests that excellence and vision are intertwined. He wants novels to return to encompassing visions, to the kind of stories that "gather what we are" and become unforgettable.
He offers a partial lineup of novelists who "reached artistic maturity" just before technology and the sonic boom of media...
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SOURCE: "Are There Books in Our Future?," in The New York Times Book Review, December 18, 1994, p. 14.
[In the following review, Sharratt exposes several assumptions that inform Birkerts's analysis of reading in The Gutenberg Elegies.]
Major historical transformations can be imagined most poignantly as parental anxieties. Any book-loving parent today contemplating a 5-year-old daughter absorbed in the first magic of solo reading can whisk forward to her teen and college years, vicariously re-anticipating that first full encounter with Austen, Dostoyevsky, Thomas Mann—only to halt this nostalgic rerun in sudden recognition of an alternative possible scenario: of a generation by then so enmeshed in electronic information, so tuned in not just to television but to pervasive interactive multimedia, so besotted by on-line data services, as to have grown up barely acquainted with printed books at all, except as museum exhibits or as unwelcome inherited wallpaper.
This worry is the starting point for Sven Birkerts's collection of essays The Gutenberg Elegies, which focuses on the epochal shift he sees occurring between print and electronic media. He imagined his daughter graduating into a post-book world already partly inhabited by college freshmen so attuned to the rapid rhythms of MTV as to be wholly unresponsive to the patient patterns of Henry James's prose, so seduced by the...
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SOURCE: "Endangered Books?," in Chicago Tribune, January 29, 1995, pp. 4-9.
[In the following review, Solomon discusses the pros and cons of Birkerts's thesis in The Gutenberg Elegies.]
Deeply imprinted in both our racial and individual psyches is the image of a lost golden age, paradisiacal in its virtue and brilliance. Nothing, it seems, can recall that Edenic hour of splendor in the grass or glory in the womb except lamentation that the good old days have yielded to coarser, brasher times.
So those of us who love the spell and sensuous delight of books come with predisposed sympathy to Sven Birkerts' mournful elegy for the printed page [The Gutenberg Elegies]. Writing on an antiquated typewriter a mere floppy disk's throw from MIT, the justly acclaimed literary critic has peered into the technological future of letters and found, to his horror, that it moves at the speed of light.
Speaking as "an unregenerate reader, one who still believes that language and not technology is the true evolutionary miracle," Birkerts argues with passion and dismay that modern electronic communication and information technologies have brought our culture to "what promises to be a total metamorphosis … What is roaring by, destined for imminent historical oblivion, is the whole familiar tradition of the book."
That many are reading these words on America Online...
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SOURCE: A review of The Gutenberg Elegies, in The Bloomsbury Review, Vol. 15, No. 1, January-February, 1995, pp. 3, 8.
[In the following review, Rehder praises Birkerts's powers of persuasion in The Gutenberg Elegies, heeding the emphasis on the personal aspect of his thought.]
Second only to sex, the human mind seems concerned about books. Both can be all-consuming, and their decline has been seen as a sure sign that Western culture is coming to an end. What the nether areas of pornography are to sex, the new media of TV, hypertext, CDs, and the Internet are to books. According to Sven Birkerts, they are "masturbation aids" for the mind, except that these outcroppings of high technology don't make us think dirty thoughts; they just get us thinking. They also get Sven Birkerts writing, and what terrific writing it is! Yet it won't do just to call Birkerts a stylist of the highest order, steeped in the tradition of Lionel Trilling's liberal imagination. He does reach the depth of intellect and the height of sensibility that Trilling wrote about so eloquently. But Birkerts is not as indirect or "Jamesian" about his convictions, because he has seen the devil at the cross-roads more clearly than Trilling could 50 years ago. A vow to refuse the devil's temptations rather than a call for exorcism, these Elegies are about thinking and about ideas.
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SOURCE: "Afterwords," in The New Republic, Vol. 212, No. 21, May 22, 1995, pp. 40-1.
[In the following review, Tolson describes the principal themes of The Gutenberg Elegies, explaining the deficiencies of Birkerts's arguments yet admiring his passion for reading.]
It's not easy to pick up a book about the impending death of a practice once thought to be at the heart of the well-lived life. I mean the practice of reading, especially the kind of serious reading we were taught was not only the means to an education, but its self-delighting end. And though it may be comforting to hear one's twilight fears echoed and elaborated by someone so steadily persuasive as Sven Birkerts, it's hard to shake the feeling that his book would more profitably sit in the hands of those who are least likely to turn to it: the growing number of "wired" citizens who consider books, and book-reading, quaint atavisms in the evolution of information technology. This book's message is apt to seem to them as distant as its medium.
The medium in this case is the old-fashioned discursive essay—personal, reflective, edifying and (true to the title of the collection) elegiac. Through the fifteen essays gathered here, two themes march solemnly, purposefully and often hand in hand. The first is that the reading of good books is an essential, and essentializing, activity: that it deepens and individualizes us,...
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SOURCE: "The Message Is the Medium: A Reply to Sven Birkerts and The Gutenberg Elegies," in The Chicago Review, Vol. 41, No. 4, 1995, pp. 116-30.
[In the following review, Stephenson challenges Birkerts's thesis in The Gutenberg Elegies, addressing the impact of electronic media on the literary arts.]
"Where am I when I am involved in a book?"
—Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies
"You're in cyberspace."
—Kevin Kelly, executive editor of Wired magazine, responding to Birkerts in the Harper's Magazine Forum.
I have before my eyes a page, and on the page, typewritten in a serif font, is a poem. It is an ode written in 1819 by John Keats. I read the first words aloud to myself, slowly, pronouncing each syllable as though it were a musical note or a percussive beat: "Thou still unravish'd bride of quietness, / Thou foster-child of silence and slow time." As I continue down the page, I linger over certain phrases and rhymes; I go back and re-read, taking the stanzas apart and putting them back together again in my mind. The words fall into their order, and I feel their rhythm somewhere in my chest, the resonance of language uttered by a human voice in solitude. I am forced back into myself by the words on the page,...
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SOURCE: A review of The Gutenberg Elegies, in Library Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 1, January, 1996, pp. 105-06.
[In the following review of The Gutenberg Elegies, Stevens evaluates Birkerts's insights on the act of reading in an electronic environment.]
Technocrats are likely simply to reject the views expressed by Sven Birkerts in these fourteen challenging essays as being a Luddite love of the way things are. Old-fashioned librarians are likely simply to accept those views at face value or, worse, to quote excerpts that they may have read in a review to justify their continuing reluctance to deal with technology. That would be unfortunate, for in The Gutenberg Elegies he presents a carefully reasoned point of view of various aspects of reading, and not necessarily other forms of communication, and how the skills and techniques of reading are altered and changed in an electronic environment. All of us, and especially librarians, can learn a great deal from a thoughtful reading of these essays regardless of whether we disagree or agree with what he has to say.
As Birkerts is careful to point out in his brief introduction, "The Reading Wars," much of what he has to say is derived largely from his own personal experiences as a reader. That is especially true of the seven essays in the first section, "The Reading Self," of his book. Much of the content of those first...
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SOURCE: "'The Fate of the Book,'" in The Antioch Review, Vol. 54, No. 3, Summer, 1966, pp. 261-72.
[In the following essay, Birkerts speculates about the implications of (he transition from page-centered (book) to screen-centered (on-line) communication in contemporary society.]
I would need the fingers of both hands to track how many times this past year I have been asked to give my thoughts on something called "the fate of the book." I have sat on symposia, perched on panels, opined on-line, and rattled away on the radio—not once, it seems, addressing the fate of reading, or literacy, or imagination, but always that other thing: the fate of the book. Which would be fine, really, except that the host or moderator never really wants to talk about the book—the artifact, the bundle of bound pages—or even much about the class of things to which it belongs. That class of things is of interest to people mainly insofar as it is bound up with innumerable cultural institutions and practices. In asking about the fate of the book, most askers really want to talk about the fate of a way of life. But no one ever just comes out and says so. This confirms my general intuition about Americans, even—or especially—American intellectuals. We want to talk about the big things but we just can't let ourselves admit it.
I begin with this observation because I am, paradoxically, always encountering...
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SOURCE: "Pulling the Plug," in New Statesman, Vol. 125, No. 4300, September 13, 1996, pp. 46-7.
[In the following review, Jardine faults the integrity of Birkerts's polemic in The Gutenberg Elegies, dismissing his prediction of cultural doom from technological advances.]
Sven Birkerts composes his literary essays on an old IBM Selectrix typewriter. He is proud to admit that he understands little about new technology. But he is absolutely sure that the advent of the personal computer marks the end of reading, and that the headlong expansion of the Internet sounds the death knell for the book as we know it.
Enthusiastic reviews of the U.S. edition of The Gutenberg Elegies eloquently testify that plenty of cultivated people will welcome Birkerts's lament, full of foreboding, because it resonates deeply with their own sense of the end of culture. The Bloomsbury Review is quoted: "In my more melancholy mood I hear deeper in The Gutenberg Elegies a most mesmeric music, and I shudder from the resonance these essays generate in my heart."
What is Birkerts so afraid of? Broadly speaking, that the days when we could ask adolescents to read the exquisitely intricate prose of Henry James and William Faulkner with unselfconscious ease and delight may be over. As a teacher I can confirm that he is right, but is he also right to insist (to the point of...
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SOURCE: "Wired Thing, You Make My Heart Sing," in Los Angeles Times Book Review, December 1, 1996, p. 4.
[In the following review, Stall highlights the degree of ambiguity surrounding the relationship between society and technology, explaining the titular allusion of Tolstoy's Dictaphone.]
Slowly, our blind infatuation with digital technology is giving way to some obvious questions: How do we treat computers? How do computers affect us? Might we be involved in an electronic Faustian bargain?
My online friends immediately respond: "Don't worry, the computer is just a tool." But in The Media Equation, Stanford University professors Byron Reeves and Clifford Nass show that we don't treat computers as tools. Rather, we relate to computers as if they were real people and places. Suddenly, this rationale explains plenty: the yearning for simple, user-friendly systems; the spread of Internet addiction; viewers' hypnotic attachment to multimedia games.
The authors work in mass communications and sociology: They study computing using psychological means. In one experiment, they programmed one computer system to present a dominant style of answers, another to be more submissive. The first machine made assertions and answered questions with great confidence. The other responded with timid suggestions and a bit of wavering. Sure enough, subjects using the two systems saw...
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Source: Contemporary Literary Criticism, ©1999 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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At pair Networks we are determined to set the standard for sustainable business practices in our industry. Day in and day out, our environmental policies and beliefs are woven throughout our culture, guiding our decisions and business practices.
In addition to maintaining environmentally responsible business practices, we promote balanced and healthy living for our employees. In turn, we have the happiest and healthiest employees, that provide the best possible customer service. Our commitment to these ideals is better for the natural environment, great for our employees, and downright awesome for our customers.
Take a moment to look at the ways pair Networks tries to be a good steward of the Earth.
Carbon Neutral Business Operations Using 100% Renewable Energy
pair Networks has measured, reduced, and offset its company-wide carbon footprint.
As of August 1, 2007, all of pair Networks' operations, including datacenters, support operations, administrative facilities, and employee commutes & business travel are 100% Carbon Neutral. Plus, pair Networks is powered by 100% renewable energy.
What does Carbon Neutral mean? It means that we did a greenhouse gas inventory to better understand our carbon footprint and help us decide how to reduce and offset our impact. In addition to our energy efficiency and conservation plans, we are offsetting the carbon emissions generated company-wide by purchasing verified emission reductions (VERs) and renewable energy credits (RECs) from Renewable Choice Energy.
The projects that we are supporting help reduce harmful levels of carbon dioxide emissions throughout the World.
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- not driving over 7.5 million miles in an average car
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Reduced Energy Consumption
We reduce energy consumption in our facilities in many different ways. We also reevaluate our energy consumption on a regular basis so we can improve on our conservation efforts.
Our internal development and testing servers are virtualized (used for multiple purposes) whenever possible, to reduce the total amount of hardware we use, reduce our energy consumption, and lower our cooling-load. Our workstations are chosen for their materials (low toxicity, low or no-emissions, and safe for recycling or disposal) and to have the lowest possible power consumption, during routine use.
Our workplace policies require employees to turn off the lights in areas that are not occupied; turn off and unplug devices that are not actively being used (such as mobile phone chargers or anything with a power adapter); allow idle workstations to enter sleep-mode, during the business day; and, at the end of an employee's shift, workstations are required to be shut off (when they won't be in use for a day or more). We also require employees to shut off computer monitors when they are not at their desks.
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The office and meeting spaces within our facilities have large windows that not only afford exterior views, but let-in a great deal of natural light. Illuminating our workspaces with natural light, and only using energy efficient artificial lighting (LED, Compact Fluorescent Lighting (CFL), or low-wattage, standard fluorescent fixtures), when absolutely necessary, saves a significant amount of energy (and money). One must also consider the health benefits of all of that natural light (which is discussed in the Healthy Office Environment section).
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We have created a healthy, positive, and productive work environment for our employees.
During our most recent office renovations, we used earth-friendly materials such as cork flooring, recycled blue jean insulation, and biodegradable paints and other coatings that contained no Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs).
Our offices are cleaned with only non-toxic, natural and organic, allergen-free, cleaning products, which promotes good employee health and does not introduce dangerous chemicals into our indoor environment.
All workspaces have windows providing exterior views and plenty of natural sunlight. This allows our employees to maintain a visual (and emotional) connection with the natural environment, which promotes not only happiness and well-being, but a high level of productivity.
We have clean air inside our offices. We've placed lots and lots of plants in every area throughout our offices to improve the indoor air quality. We also have mechanical air filtration that keeps the air clean.
Our cafeteria is equipped with purified water dispensers. Ceramic mugs, glass drinking containers, and stainless steel flatware are available for all of our employees and guests to use. We strongly discourage the use of plastic cups, plastic flatware, plastic water bottles, or styrofoam.
USDA Organic fruit and fair trade tea and coffee are available every day to employees (for free) in our cafeteria. Many healthy alternatives to traditional snack foods are available in our vending machines. We also provide our entire staff with a lunch of delicious organic and natural foods, once per month (also for free).
We use our office space wisely. We use spaces for different purposes throughout the day, so we don't waste any square footage or cubic footage, which in-turn reduces costs and energy usage. For example, our conference center doubles as a yoga studio for our twice-weekly on-site yoga classes.
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All of the paper products we purchase (paper towels, paper napkins, toilet tissue, note pads, and printer paper) are made from 100% recycled content and are fully recyclable and/or compostable (with the exception of the toilet paper, obviously (it's still compostable, but you wouldn't want to reuse or recycle it)). We also do our best to buy office products with 100% recycled content (including pens and other plastic and metal items). As a rule, we reduce wasteful use (viewing documents electronically, rather than printing them, etc.) and we only order new supplies when it's absolutely necessary (when supplies have almost run out, can't be reused, or are simply at the end of their life-cycle).
When we do place orders for new supplies, we order in batches, for all of the items that we need, in order to reduce packaging (and waste) as much as possible (so there's even less to recycle in the first place).
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We reduce waste via a company-wide recycling program. We recycle materials such as aluminum cans, glass, household batteries, paper, and plastic. Employees are welcome to bring these items into the office, from home, for recycling.
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We reuse and repurpose servers, network gear, and workstations for as long as we reasonably can. Once a piece of equipment has reached the end of it's useful life, we donate parts or entire systems to various organizations. Any hardware that can be recycled is sent off for recycling. Any hardware that can't be reused or recycled is disposed of in an environmentally responsible way.
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We hold educational seminars throughout the year. In addition to seminars about our services and business operations, other topics include: financial planning, healthy lifestyles, nutrition, and energy conservation.
We support organizations that promote environmental stewardship, alternative transportation, conservation, education, energy efficiency, and community-building.
We encourage our employees to volunteer for community service organizations and compensate them (by way of our Volunteer Days Program) for their time away from work.
Every employee is entitled to thousands of dollars in supplemental compensation through our Quality of Life Fund, or Q-Fund as we call it. The Q-Fund is designed to encourage employees to lead balanced, healthy lives. In this unique program, employees are reimbursed for expenditures that improve the balance and quality of their lives, including: lease or purchase payments for alternative fuel vehicles, camping and sporting goods, bicycles, Energy Star rated appliances, LED lighting, solar panels, personal trainers and/or life coaches, memberships to cultural organizations, among many, many other things.
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Employee work schedules are created with two goals in mind:
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- reducing our overall impact on the Earth
Schedules are set so that employees travel to and from work at off-peak hours (as in, not during 'rush hour'). Commuting to and from work on less crowded roads has the following positive impacts:
- reduced idling time during stop-and-go driving saves gas and cuts down on emissions
- shorter over-all commute times means less wasted time, lower stress, greater happiness, and higher productivity
- fewer cars on the road during a commute (and correspondingly fewer aggressive drivers) means safer and calmer commutes, whether on the bus, in a car, on a bike, or walking
We strongly encourage biking, public transportation, and walking as ways to get to and from work, and in employees' personal lives. We also provide covered, secured bike storage for employees who bike to work.
In addition, as a benefit of being employed at pair Networks, all employee commutes are factored-in and included in our Verified Emission Reductions purchase from Renewable Choice Energy.
Our Environmental Policy will keep evolving and improving.
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LT. HERRIOUS COTTON will be taking on the responsibilities of Precinct Four commander next week, following the recent resignation of Wendell Watts.
Watts, whose last day with the Jackson Police Department is Monday, turned in his resignation in April.
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Watts tendered his resignation on April 23 to take a job as head of security with Central Mississippi Medical Center.


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The Tracerline Vio-Blu dual-head LED flashlight, No. TP-9357CS, features a high-output True UV LED at one end and a super-bright blue light LED at the other. As a result, it provides optimal fluorescent response and contrast, regardless of the type of dye. This ensures that all leaks glow brilliantly. Leaks can be seen even without using the yellow glasses provided. The blue light LED works with all oil-based dyes, including difficult-to-fluoresce yellow dyes. With an inspection range of up to 25', this compact lamp allows for easy access into tight, cramped areas. Its anodized body stands up to years of use.
Tracerline OPTI-LUX 400 True UV LED leak detection flashlight, No. 400
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Tracer Products' Tracerline OPTI-LUX 400 True UV LED leak detection flashlight, No. 400, makes automotive leaks easy to spots. Works with all Tracerline universal/ester and PAG A/C dyes, as well as TP-3400, TP-3405 and TP-3900 series fluid dyes. Leaks can be seen using the True UV LED light even without using the yellow glasses provided. This powerful unit is specially designed to fluoresce dyes brighter and with greater contrast than standard blue light inspection lamps. With an inspection range of up to 25', the light can get into tight, cramped areas that larger lamps can't.
UV Phazer Black, Nos. 413065 and 414075
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UView's UV Phazer Black, Nos. 413065 and 414075, features a "True UV" LED blacklight that is 11 times more powerful at illuminating UV dyes than previous offerings. Available in rechargeable lithium-ion (No. 413065) and AAA battery (No. 414075) offerings, the flashlights benefit from the features of the Phazer Neo, but at an even better price. Includes adjustable lens focus, anodized aluminum housing and a 400 nm wavelength.
- Product From Tracer Products
Tracer Products' Optimax 400, No. TP-8610CS, comes as an economical, cordless, true UV LED leak detection flashlight. It emits less visible light so leaks are clearer and easier to spot, saving valuable inspection time for technicians. Features a high-output UV LED that causes dyes to fluoresce more brilliantly and with greater contrast than with conventional inspection lamps. The flashlight's pre-focused beam optimizes fluorescent response without any adjustments. It works with all proprietary universal/ester and PAG A/C dyes. Features a 10' inspection range. Powered by standard AAA batteries (included) and has 30,000-hour LED service life. Comes with belt holster, lanyard and fluorescence-enhancing glasses.
Tracerline OPTIMAX 400 cordless UV LED leak detection flashlight
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Tracer Products offers the Tracerline OPTIMAX 400 cordless, true UV LED leak detection flashlight. It emits less visible light so leaks are clearer and easier to spot, and features a high-output UV LED that causes dyes to fluoresce more brilliantly and with greater contrast than with conventional inspection lamps. It works with all Fluoro-Lite universal/ester and PAG A/C dyes, as well as Dye-Lite TP-3400 and TP-3900 series fluid dyes. Its inspection range is up to 10' (3m) or more, and the lamp body is corrosion-resistant, anodized aluminum. Powered by standard AAA batteries (included), the unit has a 30,000-hour LED service life.
- Product From Maxxeon Inc.
The Maxxeon WorkStar 224 6" UV inspection light weighs only 1 oz and clips easily and comfortably into any pocket. This penlight produces a powerful beam of UV light that works with all fluorescent dyes checking leaks in A/C and other systems. The rugged flashlight is designed for technicians for daily use in a demanding shop, manufacturing or maintenance environment. The tough, T6 aluminum body has Type II anodizing, improving flashlight durability. The anodizing light comes as a bright shade of violet, so it can be easily identified. Its knurled surfaces provide good grip and improve aesthetics, according to the company.
Optimax Jr LED leak detection flashlight No. TP-8640CS
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Tracer Products offers the super-compact Tracerline TP-8640CS Optimax Jr — a cordless, blue light LED leak detection flashlight that reveals vehicle leaks in cramped areas inaccessible to larger lamps. It measures just 7¼" (19cm) long, weighs only 5 ounces (140g). This powerful, low-cost flashlight makes all manufacturers' fluorescent dyes glow brightly so technicians can pinpoint air conditioning and fluid leaks. It provides over four hours of peak performance and has an inspection range of up to 6' (1.8m). The Optimax Jr uses an LED bulb with a 100,000-hour life and comes with fluorescence-enhancing glasses in a handy clamshell package.


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