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Novara FM: Engine of Immortality w/ Jeff Jarvis

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Philosophy, News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2023

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

For 500 years, societies have been shaped by the authority and permanence of the printed word. What do we have to lose – or gain – when the internet renders print culture obsolete? Jeff Jarvis thinks we should look to the early print era, when Johannes Gutenberg’s invention caused a moral panic across Europe, for clues […]

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0:00.0

I'm Naomi Klein and I am at Navarro Media right now having just done in a wonderful in-depth interview and this is why I love Navarro Media and I listen regularly and watch to find out what the hell is going on in the UK.

0:15.2

It is so critical to have independent media that we can trust that goes deep on the issues

0:20.8

and also lets people stay up on the day-to-day twists and turns.

0:24.4

It's going to be especially important for your next election.

0:27.4

So I'm incredibly grateful that Navarro media exists and it exists because people support it. So make sure to support

0:34.8

Navarre media. We need left institutions and that means that we have to support

0:39.6

them when they're doing such great work as Navarre media is.

0:43.0

Thanks. The error of print is over half a millennium old and if it has an arbitrary

1:07.4

starting point which is of course rarely how innovation works but if it does

1:12.0

well that would have to be the production of the Gutenberg

1:15.1

Bible in the 1450s, printed by Johannes Gutenberg and financed by Johann Fust.

1:21.3

What happened next and why is well documented. Martin Luther, the 95 Theses, the

1:27.2

Reformation, the modern nation state, the rise of the public sphere. All of this was

1:32.0

made possible so the argument goes, because of the printing press.

1:36.7

It was, in short, one of the most disruptive technologies in human history. But what if that period was only temporary? What if the internet is just

1:45.3

as disruptive as the printing press, if not more so? And what might be the kinds of social values

1:51.0

and politics to emerge from that kind of disruption happening once more.

1:55.6

What if the world as we see it, the world created by Gutenberg was merely a

2:01.0

parenthesis in human history.

2:03.0

I discussed all of that with Professor Jeff Jarvis,

2:06.0

whose new book makes precisely that argument.

2:09.0

Jeff Jarvis, welcome to Navarro-FM.

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