The future of the idea that is the Internet is in jeopardy according to Wired magazine writer Lawrence Lessig [article]. Lessig worries that in order to settle the debate over Google Print, the search engine giant will compromise and cease to index the contents of millions of out of print and public domain books.
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Children fear bogeymen, Derrida writes. It is only through the repetition of some kind of magical incantation that we can rid children of this fear. The “exorcism” or “antidote” they seek is dialectics (121). He calls this practice “anamnesic dialectics,” in other words the un-forgetting dialectics, the re-membering dialectics.
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