{"id":33945,"date":"2013-11-03T15:20:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-argument-that-the-advent-of-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2013-11-03T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T15:20:50","slug":"the-argument-that-the-advent-of-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/the-argument-that-the-advent-of-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The argument that the advent of the Internet somehow marks a Telecom Year Zero after which nothing will ever be the same can be made only by ignoring the actual history of literature. Look at Kafka\u2019s obsession with telephones; or the way the phonograph, for Bram Stoker, mirrors the vampire as a machine for bringing the dead to life (or, conversely, storing the living in dead form); or at the obsessive attention Samuel Richardson\u2019s Clarissa is forced to pay to ink and desks and messengers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Tom McCarthy and other authors on technology and writing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/11\/03\/books\/review\/writing-bytes.html?_r=0&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;smid=tw-nytimes&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss&amp;adxnnlx=1383397313-8E3thH0O4xSKY5u16swzfA&amp;pagewanted=all\">Writing Bytes &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/thisistheverge.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">thisistheverge<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The argument that the advent of the Internet somehow marks a Telecom Year Zero after which nothing will ever be the same can be made only by ignoring the actual history of literature. Look at Kafka\u2019s obsession with telephones; or the way the phonograph, for Bram Stoker, mirrors the vampire as a machine for bringing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8Pv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}