The Future of Reading
Sunday ,29 May, 2016
Chair: Prof. Gabriel Motzkin
Lecturer: Prof. Michael Hagner
Reading is among the most contested issues in the early 21st century. While critics warn of “digital dementia” and argue that skimming through the Internet destroys the capability of close reading, other commentators welcome these technological options as a new epoch in the long history of reading. Instead of taking sides with one of these options, Prof. Hagner will analyze them in historical perspective and argue for a new ecology of reading, based on the profound difference between paper and digital technologies.