{"id":2293,"date":"2014-10-15T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T20:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2014-10-15T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T20:03:27","slug":"author-sven-birkerts-on-culture-crash-the-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2014\/10\/author-sven-birkerts-on-culture-crash-the-book.html","title":{"rendered":"Author Sven Birkerts on Culture Crash The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;l18iXkqE0pAKSvY5UNL4M81fXOJAntvm&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>ONE of the first and most eloquent books on the transition away from the world of print to a new one dominated by digital communications came 20 years ago from the veteran literary critic Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age was funny, sad and prescient, and served as important foundation for my upcoming Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me especially proud to have this endorsement from the great scribe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWe\u2019ve all had the feeling of these enormous changes \u2014 long in the making, not \u2018at the last minute\u2019 \u2014 but Scott <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2294\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780865479579-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"9780865479579\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780865479579-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/9780865479579.jpg 668w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Timberg has the synthesis that makes them make sense. CULTURE CRASH throws a clear, defining light on the squeeze that digitally-based economies have put on our artists, the analog makers who have always defined us to ourselves. A hugely important book.\u201d &#8212; Sven Birkerts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My book comes out from Yale University Press in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[contextly_auto_sidebar id=&#8221;l18iXkqE0pAKSvY5UNL4M81fXOJAntvm&#8221;] ONE of the first and most eloquent books on the transition away from the world of print to a new one dominated by digital communications came 20 years ago from the veteran literary critic Sven Birkerts. The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age was funny, sad and prescient, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,596,34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-creative-class","7":"category-culture-crash-the-book","8":"category-literary","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2295,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2293\/revisions\/2295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}