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[ 24.10.08 ] L’attribution du Prix Nobel de Littérature à Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio a une fois de plus souligné de manière tout à fait gratifiante et impressionnante, l’aveuglement ou ce désintérêt agressif de la critique littéraire allemande vis-à-vis de la France. Jean-Marie comment? Jean-Marie qui? Visiblement, personne n’a entendu parler ni même lu une seule ligne de J-M. G.Le ... lire la suite
[ 14.10.08 ] L’automne est le temps des salons du livre. En Suède, le salon du livre de Göteborg commence dès la fin septembre. A Barcelone, se tient en 2008 et pour la 26e fois le salon du livre international Liber et à la mi-octobre, celui de Francfort , le plus grand du monde. Puis cela continue avec la Boekenbeurs à Anvers début novembre et enfin en Autriche pour la première fois à ... lire la suite
[ 04.10.08 ] Un petit scandale qui rappellerait presque le «Clash des civilisations» de Samuel Phillips Huntington secoue le monde littéraire. On peut pour une fois laisser courageusement les religions hors du jeu, finalement, ce match pour une grande prétention culturelle mondiale en a déjà tant en soi: Vieille Europe vs. Nouveau Monde. Horace Engdahl, le secrétaire en poste et porte-parole du ... lire la suite
[ 28.09.08 ] La semaine dernière, nous avons parlé des cercles de lecture dans la vraie vie, comme celui de readme.cc dans la bibliothèque principale de Vienne. Aujourd’hui, nous allons traiter d’un autre cas précis du monde virtuel. Après une pause bien méritée pendant les mois d’été, les lectures à Dagny NW , la maison de la littérature de readme.cc sur Second Life recommencent le 25 ... lire la suite
[ 22.09.08 ] La bibliothèque virtuelle: ces trois mots décrivent à la perfection le monde de readme.cc. En effet, il s'agit toujours de la découverte de bons livres et du partage de cette découverte. L'existence du cercle de lecture de readme.cc démontre cependant que cela ne doit pas rester seulement virtuel. Le cercle de lecture est constitué d'étagères de livres rassemblés et entretenus ... lire la suite
[ 16.09.08 ] 2008: l’année de ses quarante ans. L’anniversaire d’une institution littéraire, celui du prix Man Booker pour la fiction , montre que 1968 ne doit pas être considérée uniquement comme l’année du mouvement étudiant et de la révolte. Cette année, ce prix renommé sera attribué pour la quarantième fois au meilleur roman anglophone du Commonwealth ou d’Irelande. Les six ... lire la suite
[ 05.09.08 ] The crucial question for the Booksellers’ Association is essentially as old as planned economies and economic liberalism: Which is better, the dynamics of the free market or the protective hand of the state? For as soon as products are considered “cultural goods”, things become tricky. In several European countries there is a fixed retail price for books, which guarantees that for a set ... lire la suite
[ 01.09.08 ] Before introducing my actual topic, I’d wanted to present the little Slovenian village of Medana, the venue of a festival celebrating its twelfth anniversary at the end of August 2008. So with this readme.cc news in mind, I decided to ask the omniscient World Wide Web for help two weeks ago. Normally Wikipedia is the right address for this kind of thing. But this time the search brought up ... lire la suite
[ 25.08.08 ] Kindle d’Amazon et ses concurrents restent un des sujets les plus épineux de cet automne littéraire. Sur le marché européen des dispositifs de lecture numérique, d’autres entreprises ont commencé à positionner leurs propres produits comme la société de téléphone française Orange avec son projet Read&Go , l’allemande Telekom avec News4me ou Sony avec dispositif appelé ... lire la suite
[ 16.08.08 ] Literature is rapidly conquering virtual space. While readme.cc’s Second Life readings are taking a break for the summer, the Goethe Institute recently presented its new branch on an island of its own in the digital world of Second Life. In addition to a moderated chat, German classes and changing exhibitions, literary events are also to be held there. (From here you can go directly to ... lire la suite
[ 11.08.08 ] Nous sommes au beau milieu de l’Année Nationale Anglaise de la Lecture (National Year of Reading) et cela provoque tellement d’événements et d’initiatives qu’il est impossible de suivre en détail chaque cas particulier. Beaucoup de choses bougent au Royaume-Uni pour les lecteurs et lectrices, et à tous les niveaux, même au Parlement! Cette année, le groupe APWG (All-Party ... lire la suite
[ 08.08.08 ] Le tout dernier site avec battage publicitaire est arrivé! Bon, il faut le reconnaître, cela ne date pas d’hier. «Tu fais quoi là?». Telle en est la question centrale, intéressant de plus en plus de personnes depuis deux ans, et cela, non plus seulement dans le cadre privé, mais bien de manière visible par la terre entière. Actuellement, sur le site de Twitter , plus de deux ... lire la suite
[ 28.07.08 ] Finding out first, having an opinion first, or hearing about and reading everything before everyone else - in the information age, knowing first has become symbolic, cultural capital. And sometimes it can even be turned into hard cash. For ultimately cultural journalists make a living from nothing but a slight edge in information. In the era of blogs and citizen journalism, website ... lire la suite
[ 21.07.08 ] France enjoys being the navel of the universe, though often this attitude turns into mere navel-gazing. This fact regularly leads to criticism, as can be seen in a book just published by Gallimard, „Pour une littérature-monde.” In it, twelve authors - under the aegis of Michel Le Bris and Jean Rouaud - explore the role and meaning of the French language and literature in the globalised ... lire la suite
[ 14.07.08 ] „Garbage for All”. Such was the provocative title used by German writer Rainald Goetz ten years ago for his almost daily instalments to a novel - and they were posted at a website for anyone who wanted to read them. The title anticipated the preconceptions that it was sure to encounter as a text claiming to be literature but presented in such a fast moving and changing medium. Though ... lire la suite
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[ 20.02.09 - 20:51 ] [ Commentaire de Robert Adlam ] I have one first response. Dreyfus's 'On the internet' (which isn't mentioned in this text) devotes a chapter to the emergence of 'noise' on the 'net. He shows how much of it (most of it?) is like Dylan's 'Highway 61' - a huge space for distraction and meaninglessness. So, unless there is an already established critical consciousness the 'net is only likely to consolidate the established (global) power structures and seduce people with the objects of desire.
[ 21.04.08 - 09:05 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] Internet in Sri Lanka
Amal Rajapakse and Amara Dissanayake
30. 12. 1998
- In the last three years, a number of Internet Service Providers were established in Sri Lanka. Nevertheless, only in the capital and its suburbs some access to the Net is possible.
- Moreover, computer hardware costs are unbearably high and using the Net often means blocking a whole telephone line normally used by many people.
- As a study showed, only a small, well educated elite knows how to use the Internet. Even at the University most academics have no idea what possibilities the WWW or e-mail offer.
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[ 15.04.08 - 09:41 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] Power to The People: The Role of Electronic Media in Promoting Democracy in Africa
Dana Ott
30. 12. 1998
- Political decisions are always made by small ingroups practising a face-to-face communication. This fact won't be changed by the Internet.
- But the Net can affect the process preceding decision making by establishing a new channel transporting the citizens' wants to the elite. In other words, it allows to put pressure on the political establishment.
- For functioning like this the Net needs a broad platform of users which it doesn't have in Africa for reasons of an impressive rate of illateracy and extreme high telephone costs. Therefore, it is possible that the Internet becomes a medium of the elite like television is.
- At the moment no relation between connectivity and democratization is measurable in Africa. Democratization is much more driven by newspapers and would eventually be stimulated by an independent radio broadcasting content delivered by the Internet.
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[ 10.04.08 - 11:11 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] "Our own ignorance about the digital third world is part of the problem"
an Interview with Robin Hamman
30. 12. 1998
Editor of "Cybersociology" magazine, Robin Hamman, feels it's important to show the digital third world how the internet can be useful to them. Once people have been given the desire to get online, overcoming the inevitable financial difficulties in accessing the net, time and again there are examples of how small, or isolated communities have used cyberspace to take steps towards being heard, and noticed, worldwide, on issues relevant to them.
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[ 07.04.08 - 10:46 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] Internet rickshaw to Dhaka - and back?
Manfred Ewel
30. 12. 1998
- The Net users of the so called "Third World" are in many cases self-trained computer experts working with old hard- and software. They are proud of belonging to the technological avand-garde of their society.
- In spite of high telephone costs, e-mail is often the easiest and cheapest way to send letters. Besides, the World Wide Web offers the only platform people of Third World countries sometimes have to publish their ideas and opinions if they don't want their statements to be distorted by government or western media.
- Finally, the Internet gives the members of technological avand-garde the possibility to communicate with competent colleagues all around the world and to integrate themselves in communities of interest instead of only participating in the usual social life.
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[ 02.04.08 - 10:40 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] "We have links to over 2000 web sites that contain information important to Indigenous cultures"
an E-mail talk with Shane Caraveo
30. 12. 1998
- Since the alternative net-project "NativeWeb" started in 1994, it tries to educate the public about Indigenous cultures and wants to promote communications between Indigenous peoples and organizations all around the world.
- "NativeWeb" is administrated by a network of webmasters. They all work for free.
- The main goal for the near future is to become a non-profit organization which will provide internet access to community leaders and distribute donated computers
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[ 31.03.08 - 11:30 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] "If Indian cultures are incapable of incorporating new technologies, that might mean that they have become stagnant and are dying"
an e-mail conversation with Marc Becker
30. 12. 1998
- The Internet is no longer a great leveling agent in society which creates equal access for everybody. In the last three years it has become a typical medium of capitalistic economy.
- Nevertheless, the Internet is a workable tool for political organization and education: Projects like "NativeWeb" try to open netspace for native people like the Indians of Latin America who otherwise won't be heard.
- Therefore, it makes no sense to fear that the implementation of technology will destroy a native culture. Technology wasn't the end of western culture and it won't be the end of the Indigenous cultures, too.
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[ 25.03.08 - 12:46 ] [ Commentaire de Christian Eigner / Michaela Ritter ] "People do not spend all their time in Asia thinking about just food or water. People have desires, they engage with real and imaginary worlds"
an e-mail discussion with Ravi Sundaram
30. 12. 1998
While on one side the US and European techno-elites pose the web as a chimerical solution to inequality in the Third World, on the other hand their opponents use the existence of poverty and inequality in the periphery to deny any serious engagement with the technological practices there.
The web helps attacking loss-making institutions like universities, but it doesn´t really "westernize" the poor countries because communities tend to communicate first among themselves. And the web doesn´t deepen the gap between the rich and the poor, it has rather inserted itself in existing inequalities. Electronic cultures provide space for thousands left out of official, elite cultures.
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