February 4, 2009
Liberal Arts 2.0
Yesterday, kottke linked to Snarkmarket’s book proposal concerning Liberal Arts 2.0:
Paper is the new black, so we’re making a book.
Actually, we’re making it because the comments and conversation on Snarkmarket deserve this kind of durability. And because, hey, we’re a book-ish crew: This will be fun.
The subject is the new liberal arts. The seeds are Jason Kottke’s notion of “the liberal arts 2.0” and the Edge-y idea of “a third culture” and a new humanism.
This inspired me to make a modest argument that design is a form of rhetoric by springboarding off David Gray’s observations about information:
Regardless of one’s pressuposition, however, it is clear that we live in a world where signs and signs of signs of things capture our imagination. We call their collection media and, when we are not consuming it, we are talking about it or trying to monitize it.
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