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Beyond the Genre

Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers

By: Stefano Calzati

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Beyond the Genre

Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers

By: Stefano Calzati

What is the cultural value of travel writing today? How is the genre affected by instant communication and digital technologies? This volume provides answers to these questions through adopting a transmedial perspective by comparing printed travel books and travel blogs. Notably, it explores how different editorial and medial choices impact on the cultural practices of travelling and writing. Methodologically, an ethnography is proposed via the discussion of a number of original interviews (collected over three years) with contemporary travel authors and bloggers, who journeyed around (and wrote about) China. These writers are from both the West (the UK, the USA, Italy, France, New Zealand) and China (Hong Kong and the Mainland). As such, the volume not only deconstructs the English-centredness and ethnocentrism that often affect travel writing as a genre, as well as many studies on it, but it also renews the academic debate on the politics behind the genre, connecting the texts with their spheres of production and reception. The study shows the interdependence between medial and literary features, on the one hand, and the ways of journeying and writing about the experience, which largely depend upon the biography of each writer, on the other.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152752230X

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Quantum Ecology

Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies

By: Stefano Calzati,Derrick De Kerckhove

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Quantum Ecology

Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies

By: Stefano Calzati,Derrick De Kerckhove

An exploration of the emerging quantum technological paradigm and its effects on human consciousness and cultures. In Quantum Ecology, Stefano Calzati and Derrick de Kerckhove identify three technological ecologies—linguistic, digital, and quantum—to better understand today’s shattered globalized contemporaneity and navigate the impact of soon-to-come quantum information technologies. Today’s societies, based as they are on language and writing, face disruption brought on by digital transformation, which is not predicated on sharing meaning but on sheer computability. This produces what the authors call an “epistemological crisis.” From here, the book explores how emerging quantum computers and communication will trigger an even deeper existential shift based on quantum physics’ principles of discreteness, uncertainty, and entanglement. Enriched with evidence from biology, anthropology, sociolinguistics, and information and cognitive sciences, the authors draw upon diverse case studies to sustain a convincing philosophical and political argument. The book’s chapters move from a discussion about the coevolution of humans and language to the codependence of writing, thinking, and innovation, then proceed to investigate “datacracy,” the power of algorithms. Finally, the authors outline the looming psychocultural effects and geopolitical challenges of the nascent quantum technological paradigm.

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MIT Press

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Beyond the Genre

Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers

By: Stefano Calzati

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Beyond the Genre

Approaching Travel (and) Writing through Interviews with Authors and Bloggers

By: Stefano Calzati

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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152752230X

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9781527522305

Quantum Ecology

Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies

By: Stefano Calzati,Derrick De Kerckhove

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Quantum Ecology

Why and How New Information Technologies Will Reshape Societies

By: Stefano Calzati,Derrick De Kerckhove

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Beyond the Genre

Beyond the Genre

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Quantum Ecology

Beyond the Genre

Beyond the Genre

Quantum Ecology

Quantum Ecology

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