From UCLA, Zocalo & ALOUD
How's that internet thingy working out for ya? Skip the Wasilla twang but don't ignore the discomfited query. Along with the glories of 21st century technology, there's clearly a great deal of unease or unrest accompanying Web 2.0 and it certainly will show up around this metropolis this week. On the Westside at 7 tonight, authors Susan Jacoby ('Age of American Unreason') and Nicholas Carr ('The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains') will kick around in a free, open conversation -- for which reservations are required -- the possible connections between digital culture, anti-intellectualism, fundamentalism and U.S. education. Phew.Then in downtown at 7:30 Wednesday night, artist Salomon Huerta (shown at right) and art critic David Pagel will take on in a free, open conversation -- for which reservations are required -- 'Ego, Destruction and Facebook,' exploring artistic process and modernity. And on Thursday night at 7 in downtown, William Powers (the 'Hamlet's Blackberry' author, shown at left) will hash out with book critic David Ulin in a free, open conversation -- for which reservations are required -- how contemporary life might better be conducted in the omnipresent shadow of ever-changing technology.
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