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(5) | None | When the Berlin-based cultural magazine LETTRE INTERNATIONAL organized its philosophical essay competition, it received 2,481 submissions in seven languages from 123 countries. Juries chose 33 authors as finalists: this essay is one of these short-listed papers. It sends a farewell to the twentieth and a welcome to the twenty-first century. The essay deals with physical travels from the voyages of dicovery to our more mental journeys through cyberspace. It looks at communications, world history, developments from Gutenberg's printing press to the Internet, and much more. In doing this, it finds ironies. One of these ironies is the re-creation of white spots on the map: we can now find the old terra incognita all over again. That's the unintended result of our advanced technological and widely (mis)informed age. We will have to roll up our sleeves and work to deal with the situation. Media coverage about the essay contest was widespread. Articles appeared in the New York Times, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Die Zeit, and elsewhere. The Munich paper Sueddeutsche Zeitung called the event the _Fest of the Unknown Thinkers_.… (more) |
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▾References References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone ▾Book descriptions When the Berlin-based cultural magazine LETTRE INTERNATIONAL organized its philosophical essay competition, it received 2,481 submissions in seven languages from 123 countries. Juries chose 33 authors as finalists: this essay is one of these short-listed papers. It sends a farewell to the twentieth and a welcome to the twenty-first century. The essay deals with physical travels from the voyages of dicovery to our more mental journeys through cyberspace. It looks at communications, world history, developments from Gutenberg's printing press to the Internet, and much more. In doing this, it finds ironies. One of these ironies is the re-creation of white spots on the map: we can now find the old terra incognita all over again. That's the unintended result of our advanced technological and widely (mis)informed age. We will have to roll up our sleeves and work to deal with the situation. Media coverage about the essay contest was widespread. Articles appeared in the New York Times, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Die Welt, Die Zeit, and elsewhere. The Munich paper Sueddeutsche Zeitung called the event the _Fest of the Unknown Thinkers_. ▾Library descriptions No library descriptions found. ▾LibraryThing members' description
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This essay was one of 2,481 contributions submitted by authors from123 countries in the six UN languages English, French, Russian, Chinese, Arabic, and Spanish - plus German, in an International Essay Prize Contest organized by the Berlin-based cultural magazine Lettre International. Texts in each of the seven languages had their own preliminary jury. The identities of the writers were not revealed. After 43 finalists were selected, these essays were translated into English and evaluated by an international panel of judges. It included writers, philosophers, a poet, an art historian, and a sociologist. Ten writers won substantial cash prizes and other awards: among the winners were four essayists from the US, two from Russia, two from China, and one from France. Articles about the competition appeared in the New York Times, Neue Zuercher Zeitung, El Pais, Der Spiegel, Die Zeit, Die Welt, and in other media. Erika Schelby was a finalist. Her essay became one of the 33 short-listed contributions. | |
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