Joshua Cohen
Joshua Cohen
clicked cultural function movement remove technology text turn
I do think that once you remove the limitations of the page, once you turn text transitive, meaning it can be clicked away from, the forward movement of text can be interrupted. But I don't think this is just a function of technology. It's also a function of cultural preference.
novelists
Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
argued claim gesture novelist
In mid-20th-century America, it could be argued that the novelist still had the most claim of anyone to omniscience. Whatever he/she couldn't prove, he/she could gesture at.
devices noticed people shakespeare taking trains
Taking trains and trams in Berlin, I noticed people reading. Books, I mean - not pocket-size devices that bleep as if censorious, on which even Shakespeare scans like a spreadsheet.
eat fish low pregnant
I think we've got two messages. If you're not pregnant and you're not going to become pregnant, eat fish. If you are pregnant or you are going to become pregnant, you should still eat fish, but you should eat fish low in mercury.
fewer larger means range rely smaller vocabulary
The larger your audience, the smaller your vocabulary and range of referents - the fewer your means of expression. You can't rely on the luxury of intimacy.
approving endless truly writer
I first read Dostoyevsky when I was 14 years old and was entranced. Dostoyevsky truly is a writer for 14-year-olds, and I mean that in the most approving way - approving of his energy, and rage, his endless pessimism, and endless innocence.
technology
The Internet is a tool, a technology, and we like to say that it has all of these properties, but really, it's just a place where our writing is.
time
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
degrees embedded mind online search within
The birth of the search engine, it's nothing new: it's essentially embedded in our literature; it's how ideas relate, how the mind makes connections. I mean, connections are made online through links, and within an algorithm, they're made through degrees of relevancy between different terms.
concepts left unlike
English, unlike Hebrew, is read from left to right - as are clocks. The concepts of clockwise and counterclockwise are universal, irrespective of alphabet.
enriched via
I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.
arabic features jewish
The Muslim heaven features prominently in the Quran, Arabic poetries and Hadith. The Jewish heaven, though, is still a mystery; it's mystic.
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These and other potential health effects yield a classic risk-risk trade-off.