Nearness - Marlies de Munck, Pascal Gielen xmas gift guide 2024 These Steel Cities

These Steel Cities

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and the stylistic cousin of the magic realism in Gabriel García Márquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude

The neutral language of technology masks the powerful influence algorithms have across the New Economy

Jonathan Glancey

Nearness - Marlies de Munck, Pascal Gielen xmas gift guide 2024 These Steel CitiesThe coronavirus crisis has taught us how priceless nearness is for human beings. Art and education cannot do without it, either. moreLike works of art, people lose their aura when kept at a digital arms length. When it is unable to resonate with bodies, art simply becomes lifeless. With this publication, philosopher Marlies De Munck and cultural sociology professor Pascal Gielen seek to diagnose our new reality. In their view, culture stands as the