This paper claims, in the first part, that the arguments put forth by the Beat Movement, personified by writers such as Gary Snyder, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, have much in common with the positions of Internet pioneers, such as Vannevar Bush, especially in the text of 1945, As We May Think, and with Ted Nelson, with his never quite completed project, “Xanadu”. The second part of the paper explores oral and tribal experiences of contemporary critics such as Walter J. Ong and of Marshall McLu-han, whose claims for the existence of a global village in part has as its basis commonly shared with members of the Beat Movement ideas about orality. Finally, the center of gravity of the comments is explained as originating mainly in a twenty-five year period, from 1945 to 1970 but the discussion of these topics strays to the present.
«Cinquant’anni non sono molto tempo»: elemento tribale e Information Age nel movimento Beat]. Il saggio argomenta, nella prima parte, che le tesi proposte dal movimento Beat, quale rappresentato da scrittori come Gary Snyder, William Burroughs e Allen Ginsberg, hanno molto in comune con le posizioni dei pionieri di Internet, come quelle di Van-nevar Bush, specialmente nel testo del 1945, As We May Think, e di Ted Nelson, nel suo progetto mai del tutto completato, “Xanadu”. La seconda parte del saggio esplora le esperienze orali e tribali di critici contemporanei come Walter J. Ong e di Marshall McLuhan, i cui argomenti per l’esistenza di un villaggio globale hanno una base comune con le idee sull’oralità dei membri del movimento Beat. Infine, si mostra come, sebbene il centro di gravità di queste posizioni origini nei 25 anni tra il 1945 e il 1970, il dibattito su questi temi sia ancora di estrema attualità.
«Fifty thousand years is not very long»: The Tribal and the Information Age in the Beat Movement
Kidder, Richard
2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper claims, in the first part, that the arguments put forth by the Beat Movement, personified by writers such as Gary Snyder, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, have much in common with the positions of Internet pioneers, such as Vannevar Bush, especially in the text of 1945, As We May Think, and with Ted Nelson, with his never quite completed project, “Xanadu”. The second part of the paper explores oral and tribal experiences of contemporary critics such as Walter J. Ong and of Marshall McLu-han, whose claims for the existence of a global village in part has as its basis commonly shared with members of the Beat Movement ideas about orality. Finally, the center of gravity of the comments is explained as originating mainly in a twenty-five year period, from 1945 to 1970 but the discussion of these topics strays to the present.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.