There’s a famous anecdote from Baudrillard that illustrates some of the fundamentals of postmodernism. A pilot returning from the first Iraq war is interviewed by a television reporter and asked how he found the war. “I don’t know; I missed it” is the reply. He didn’t see it on TV, so it didn’t happen for [...]
November 21, 2006
I’ve just been checking out Wikibooks, a project of the Wikimedia foundation that aims to create free books. Like Wikipedia, anybody can contribute to the books either by adding new material or editing existing books. Those books that are complete or voted ‘good enough’ are also available as PDF documents and even print editions created [...]
April 1, 2009