{"id":444251,"date":"2010-03-18T18:55:16","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlt.fandm.edu\/?p=1500"},"modified":"2010-03-18T18:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T22:55:16","slug":"texts-without-context","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/444251","title":{"rendered":"Texts Without Context"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How the Internet and mash-up culture change everything we know about reading.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In his deliberately provocative \u2014 and deeply nihilistic \u2014 new book, \u201cReality Hunger,\u201d the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction \u201chas never seemed less central to the culture\u2019s sense of itself.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Mr. Shields\u2019s pasted-together book and defense of appropriation underscore the contentious issues of copyright, intellectual property and plagiarism that have become prominent in a world in which the Internet makes copying and recycling as simple as pressing a couple of buttons. In fact, the dynamics of the Web, as the artist and computer scientist Jaron Lanier observes in another new book, are encouraging \u201cauthors, journalists, musicians and artists\u201d to \u201ctreat the fruits of their intellects and imaginations as fragments to be given without pay to the hive mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/21\/books\/21mash.html\">New York Times<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1500\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=tlt.fandm.edu&#038;blog=7318144&#038;post=1500&#038;subd=tltatfandm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How the Internet and mash-up culture change everything we know about reading. In his deliberately provocative \u2014 and deeply nihilistic \u2014 new book, \u201cReality Hunger,\u201d the onetime novelist David Shields asserts that fiction \u201chas never seemed less central to the culture\u2019s sense of itself.\u201d Mr. Shields\u2019s pasted-together book and defense of appropriation underscore the contentious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":835,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-444251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/835"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}