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Infinite Bandwidth
I preview books through interlibrary loan before forking out cash. It’s saved me a lot of money, but now and then there’s one I really must OWN! Eugene Gan, a prof at Franciscan University, has written a small, lucid, powerfully effective book about our relationship to the ocean of media (or swamp?) around us: Infinite Bandwidth.
But… I have a confession to make.
I actually got so absorbed in this book I forgot I was reading a copy I did not own! Can you go to hell for marking up a book (not just underlining, but STARS and snarky comments like, “as if anyone in the Church is listening”, cross-references like “GKC would love this!”, red ink: “THIS is the art of teaching!!!” and even personal memos: “add this to files: education, art, media, beauty”)?
Will ya’ll please pray the Cardinal Stafford Library doesn’t throw me in jail?!?!?
Anyway, for my act of reparation, I’m offering to buy several copies if the St. Lawrence Center (or somebody….want to help??) will get a group together to study this book. Seriously, the whole way through it I wanted to be discussing it with people. This is a book that asks great questions, and we should be chewing on it together to find our own answers.
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