<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/8c6a4f84-18c3-42ef-b1b1-157247941a5f/7FAA655D-9B5C-4535-88FE-D26268386F34/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt" href="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techgnosis.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt"><B>TechGnosis</B><BR /><DIV>Magic, Memory, and the Angels of Information</DIV><BR /><DIV>by Erik Davis ( <A class="miniback" href="http://techgnosis.com">techgnosis.com</A> )</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt"><DIV class="location"> Originally appeared in Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberspace, (Duke University Press, 1994), edited by Mark Dery</DIV></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Davis&oldid=227881113" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Davis&oldid=227881113" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Davis&oldid=227881113"><P><B>Erik Davis</B> (b. 1967 in <A class="mw-redirect" title="Redwood City" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_City">Redwood City</A>, <A title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</A>) is a North American <A title="Social history" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_history">social historian</A>, <A title="Cultural critic" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_critic">cultural critic</A>, essayist and lecturer.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Davis&oldid=227881113"><P>He is noted for his study of the history of technology and society and his essays about the fate of the individual in the dawning posthuman era. Although significant aspects of his work include <A class="mw-redirect" title="Media criticism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_criticism">media criticism</A> and technology criticism, his works span across other disciplines to include a larger social history of art, religion, and science, technology, and politics.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Erik_Davis&oldid=227881113"><P>He is also a noted <A title="Philip K. Dick" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick">Philip K. Dick</A> scholar. His most recently published research has focused on the history of utopian movements in California. He is known for his lively writing style in a number of genres and on varied subjects.</P></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt" href="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt" style="font-size: 11px;">www.techgnosis.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt"><DIV class="permalink"> (<A href="http://www.techgnosis.com/chunks.php?sec=articles&cat=corpus+cybermeticum&file=chunkfrom-2005-04-06-0546-0.txt"> permalink </A>) </DIV></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/7FAA655D-9B5C-4535-88FE-D26268386F34/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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