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Attending to Technology: Theses for Disputation

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Alan Jacobs offers an aphoristic critique of social media, commentary, and our credulity before algorithms

Attending to Technology: Theses for Disputation Essay Winter 2016 Attending to Technology Theses for Disputation Alan Jacobs Subscriber Only Sign in or Subscribe Now for audio version Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction that he is wiser or more intelligent than his readers. – W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, The Viking Book of Aphorisms Author’s Note I hope that the statement above is wrong, believing that certain adjustments can be made to the aphoristic procedure that

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