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Sven Birkerts
American academic and writer · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1951 · age 75
Sven Birkerts is an American essayist and literary critic. He is best known for his book The Gutenberg Elegies (1994), which posits a decline in reading due to the overwhelming advances of the Internet and other technologies of the "electronic culture."
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In 2006 he published a revised edition with new introduction and afterword, reflecting on the endurance of reading.
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