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...slightly less pleasurably, for my classes in high school and college, my basic character has not been done much good). However, I want to say that my reading has, in fact, benefited society, or at least it has benefited you. I’m writing to you. I haven??t shown up at your house to duke it out, to resolve this difference between us with fist, or knife, or gun. I want to discuss this matter.And perhaps it is this circumstance that offers a faint idea of the social good that reading does. It acculturates an individual...
...posthumans because we live through technology, because we create virtual avatars, because “the city, the house, the car, the iPhone, the laptop, the iPod, the pillbox, the nonflesh” have become alienated vehicles for ourselves. The fear of posthumanity may seem a little exaggerated (haven??t humans always interacted, in some way, with the tools of their creation?), but for Codrescu it carries more serious implications. Inherent to logic and reason is the possibility that rational thinking will lead the unquestioning to disaster. Posthumanity means a loss of humanity, and without humanity, there?...
...cast and actors of the play hope to use the power of their production to make students fully aware of these difficult issues. “If [‘The Exonerated’] just feels like a play after you see it, we haven??t done our job,” says Ragin. “This is a real issue that affected real people. It is an artistic representation of something that is real. Next time an article or something on this comes out, we hope people are looking at the issue in a deeper...
...flaking on the 80-odd assembled Harvard undergrads (and a few more looking in the windows). Word on the street is Angelina’s doing some filming out on Long Island, and couldn’t make it up for the event. So instead, the students patiently absorbed Haven??s words of worldly wisdom concerning positive action (yada yada), marveled at his erudite quotations from sources as varied as Mother Teresa and Frederick Douglass, and eagerly clung to the hope that the star couple would make a delayed appearance. They didn...
...deal. By the end, Haven??s address was in fact energizing, focused on the need to bring responsibility and compassion to the problem of third-world underdevelopment. Still, not all in attendance were appeased...