Archive for May, 2008

Social Anxiety-of-Obsolescence Disorder

Posted in Uncategorized on May 2, 2008 by auldlangsyne24

So I refuse to be finished with this blog for some reason.

I just HAD to post this:

http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/dying_newspaper_trend_buys

Does the topic sound familiar? Preserving a print-based medium by publishing works regarding the obsolescence of that medium? Maybe Fitzpatrick rings a bell:

“In writing about the visual threat to writing, the novelist of obsolescence is able to create a cultural preserve.” (102)

That’s all for now.