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photocopying, fax machines, camcorders, global
satellite signals, and the Internet. National borders
morph into geopolitical trading blocs, and
electronic capital flows without regard to time or
space. Retribalism breaks out in the hot cruel wars
of Bosnia and Rwanda, and urban gang battles,
but also in the violent rhetoric of identity politics,
and the cool barbed wire suburban enclaves of
elites.
“Such transformation is, of course, a ‘disaster’ for
a literate, specialist culture. It blurs many
cherished attitudes and procedures. It dims the
efficacy of the basic pedagogic techniques, and