On 6/26/08, Doyle Saylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On the one level, information floods the market now with > computers, on another old media gets worse and worse, but socialist ideas > have been slow to emerge to off set the capitalist degradation of culture.
You know what's new, Doyle? Internet Archive, JSTOR, Google Books and the University of Michigan library catalogue let me search the full text of Alfred Marshall's 1892 Elements of Economics and Ira Steward's 1865 "A Reduction of hours an increase of wages" and make my own evaluation about the relative merits of Marshall's assertions about a "fixed Work-Fund fallacy" and Steward's theory of the eight-hour day. They enable me to compare the 1904, 1910 and 1916 editions of Frank A. Fetter's Principles of Economics and to locate a copy of the 1910 National Association of Manufacturers pamphlet by Walter Drew, "The Real Problem of the Eight-Hour Day". In short, the new media makes it possible for me to look at old, old media without the distorted intermediations of a century of goose-stepping textbooks and tenured mouthpieces for the propaganda of militant anti-union employers' organizations. The potential of new media lies in its use for disintermediation. But how many users realize that or use it to any extent? By comparison, how many users use "new media" to converse about something they read in the newspaper or saw on TV last night? -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
