Monday, January 30, 2017

Albert Borgmann, Holding on to Reality

Back in the early 2000's I had an interest in the digital representations of animals online, and how animals cams create an imaginary biogeography. I read this 1999 book below, "Holding On To Reality" by Albert Borgmann. It has a lot to say then about the importance of the context of information, and how the internet separates us from that context and creates a slippery slope of ambiguity. I am struck now by its prescience and how it anticipated the rise of fake news and alternate facts.