Electronic scholarship; Or, Scholarly publishing and the public

Journal of Scholarly Publishing

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 3-12

  Unsworth, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

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EID: 0039830095     PISSN: 11989742     EISSN: 17101166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/JSP-028-01-003     Document Type: Article

References (5)

1. A portion of The Gutenberg Elegies, including the paragraph that sketches out Birkerts's 'core fear,' was the lead piece in the 'Readings' section of the May 1994 issue of Harper's - followed by an excerpt from Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The Rise of Neo-Biological Civilization. Kelly is executive editor of Wired magazine. In 'Readings,' the section was titled 'The Electronic Hive: Two Views.' Letters from Robert Cover, John Perry Barlow, and others followed, in the August 1994 issue of Horper's.
2. Sven Birkerts, 'The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age,' New Letters 60, no.4 (1994): 111-112 Subsequent references to Birkerts are to this printing of the essay and are given in the text.
3. Walter Benjamin, 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,' in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968), 218.
4. Pie`ces sur l'Art, 226; qtd. in Benjamin, Illuminations, 219.
5. Willard McCarty, 'A Potency of Life: Scholarship in an Electronic Age,' Serials Librarian 23, nos. 3-4 (1993): 80-81.