Sunday, January 10, 2010

Birkerts group work summary

"The Owl Has Flown"

In "The Owl Has Flown" Birkerts tells how readers today tend to move across surfaces, skimming, hastening from on site to the next without allowing the words to resonate inwardly.
"The result is that we know countless more bits of information, both important and trivial, than our ancestors."

Meaning todays readers compared to our ancestors tend to read through things quickly and just get the main points or facts of what is being said. Instead of memorizing and retaining the broad meaning of what they are reading. And not getting the full understanding of what is going on.

The larger cultural "conversations' that he is responding to is our way of having more "geographical dispersal." We have different methods of getting information like the Television, Radio, Internet, Newspaper, ect. so we can learn more about everyone's cultuaral differences.

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