In similar fashion we cybernavigate our way to new kinds of works, ideas, and platforms that are as full of promise and threat as any wild island uncovered by a Columbus or Cortez. Explorers found new continents, new resources, new dangers and new promises of riches and renewal. Renaissance voyages of discovery traversed the world. It turns out that the increased content and connectivity of the internet doesn’t trap people within electronic experience it inspires them to go back to the physical sources of human activity with new perspectives and motivations. And as in the Renaissance, this delightful and daunting deluge of content has done more than produced more things to read and discuss it is spurring us to return with new eyes and an experimental spirit to the material world. The internet has exhumed the past en masse, giving billions access to the accumulated ideas and artifacts of the centuries. History’s backlist was front loaded, fueled by the printing press’s hunger for new content. One of the regenerative forces of the European Renaissance was the rediscovery of ancient Greek and Roman texts by humanist scholars like Petrarch. These have been our historical lenses upon our digital present: Back to the Sources Threading through all of these are six themes from the historical Renaissance that we believe inform our present one. Collected here are 14 essays on contemporary issues in digital culture, each viewed through the historical lens of the Renaissance period and its literature.Īs seen in the table of contents, we have grouped our essays under four heads: Digital Passports to Material Worlds Building a More Creative Commons the (De)Humanizing Web and The Powers That Be Not. That prior period of amazing change and cultural development known as the European Renaissance is a lens on our own day. Sure, our computers and media seem a quantum leap beyond whatever happened before, but this is not humanity’s first experience being reconfigured by a new medium, nor the first time western society has experienced widespread innovation and a flourishing of culture.
And that was it.Our present day feels like a storm of constant novelty, but we are actually repeating a parallel period of rapid societal change. So I made him a combination of every f**kboy that I know. “I read the script and I was like, 'Wow, this guy's a piece of sh*t’," Gross said. Gross said he even agrees with the general dislike of the character. He even asked people on Twitter on August 16 to stop sending him hate messages about Eric. Since the game's release, Gross has received plenty of hate on social media. It's just acting, y'all.- Axl Jorts Restoration Squad August 16, 2021 There's bad people out there, I don't support what these kind of people are doing/saying/thinking at all. Saying "it reflects poorly on me to play a character like this" is so confusing. I don't condone what the character does." "It was part of a longer paragraph message or something, and that confused me because you know, I'm thinking I took the job because this is what I love doing. "There was one (message) that I got, and I actually quoted this one, it was like, 'It reflects badly on you for portraying a character that does these kinds of things,'' Gross told Kotaku. Kotaku spoke with Eric's voice actor, Alexander Gross, about the harassment he's receiving for simply voicing the character. The content warning mentions the stalking and emotional manipulation, but it doesn't mention that interacting with Eric is necessary to complete the game. In short, Eric is manipulative and a stalker. Developer Kitfox Games says a "more accurate" version of the content warning is on the way, but in the meantime, some have taken to social media to harass the voice actor for the game's villain, Eric.
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