Remediating The Transcendental Tract for The Postmodern Digital Age
Posted by *thoreau po-mo* , Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:34 PM
Over the past few months, I've been a member of a rhetoric and composition graduate course that investigated the origins and future of computers and writing. As my final project for class, I've created this blog to examine how digital culture intertwines with nature/culture and aim to explore how the Digital Age with its technological savvy can actually build positive connections between humans and the more than human world. In conjunction with this blog, you'll find links to a twitter feed and a tumblr related to this project.
Now, don't get me wrong. I love Thoreau. One of my many nicknames is Nature Nerd, but I'm also deeply invested in applying technologies that will encourage a person's engagement with the world around her.
Besides, my favorite New England curmudgeon may not have been a fan of the railroad, but he didn't write his eloquent treatises with finger and blood. Pen, paper, and the printing press helped him spread the American Transcendental Gospel. Hopefully, this blog will initiate discussion, offer some humor, and send folks out to smell the hyacinth trellised in a bucolic wonderland or (more up my alley) creeping along the nearby garbage dumpster.
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