August 28, 2023 – Rhetoric in Digital Environments

Nineties

The Garden of Forking Pasts

Julia Unger2 years ago2 years ago02 mins

I am not sure what “The Garden of Forking Paths” is trying to accomplish, but I am interested in the contrasting views it seems to provide on our future and past. The narrator offers this advice to “soldiers and bandits,” “Whosoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished, should…

Broken World Thinking
Hypertext & Hodology
Nineties

Assigning ourself to other Gods

Julia Unger2 years ago2 years ago01 mins

In Byung-Chul Han’s “Hypertext and Hyperculture,” he ends with the idea that “Re-theologization, re-mythologization, and re-nationalization are common reactions to the hyperculturalization of the world” (10). There is a suggestion that the hyperculturalization of the world will lead to a type of fundamentalism. Considering this was originally published in German in 2005, I feel it…