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My talk on culture in a disrupted, digitally networked era at Ignite Baltimore is now on video. Some nerves meant I read more than performed, but I'm proud of the ideas and imagery I cobbled together.
Here are much clearer images of the slides I used:
The Fate of Culture in an Age of Disruption: An Ignite Talk by Andrew Hazlett
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An important and thought-provoking talk from the innovative publisher James Bridle:
Between The Alexandrian War of 48 BCE and the Muslim conquest of 642 CE, the Library of Alexandria, containing a million scrolls and tens of thousands of individual works was completely destroyed, its contents scattered and lost. An appreciable percentage of all human knowledge to that point in history was erased. Yet in his novella “The Congress”, Jorge Luis Borges wrote that “every few centuries, it’s necessary to burn the Library of Alexandria.” ...as we build ourselves new structures of knowledge and certainty, as we design our future, should we be concerned with the value of our ruins?
Listen to James' talk at dConstruct here.
Nerve-wracking and exciting: I'm speaking at Ignite Baltimore #6 on the evening of Thursday, September 30th. My proposal was to talk about older forms of culture and whether and how they can survive and flourish in the networked age.
If you're so disposed, you can "tune in" to the Ignite Baltimore live stream here.
I'll post notes and slide images here after the talk. I'm sure I spent at least as much time selecting and preparing the images as I did composing the talk.
That was cool. Here are the slides I used:
Things Fall Apart... and a Terrible Beauty is Born: Culture in an age of Disruption
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