Dubravka Ugrešić : Fox & American Fictionary
Between The Covers : Conversations with Writers in Fiction, Nonfiction & Poetry
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The Impact of Technology on Language and the Imagination
I feel like you share with Boris Pilnyak is a wary relationship to technology he was a supporter of anti-urbanism and a critic of the mechanization of society. You're focused on the effect of digital technology on language and the imagination at one point in Fox. There's a way in which the digital Fox feels like it's a more static version of the Fox but we don't know really the impact I mean one minute of contemplation about the influence of technology on our brains can frighten you so But everybody uses it you're forced to do that because one day your landscape changed there are no anymore phone boothsthere are no this and that so you have to adaptYeah that's it
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