Kari Kraus Questions

1) Over the long term, what do you think the roles of books in society will become? Since the beginning of the 20th century, we have seen a massive shift in what purpose books serve, do you think they will continue the trend towards being an artifact of nostalgia, or, given that generation z is perhaps the last to grow up with book ever being a large part of their life, they will become even less relevant?

2) What are your thoughts on the death of the author? How does this function in a world where we feel obligated to hold creators accountable for their work, but also give value to free interpretation? At what point does a harmful interpretation become the responsibility of the creator and at what point is it only the responsibility of the reader?

3) At what point does the means and medium become a text itself? It feels like the way we think about books and multimedia has taken on a life not too dissimilar to the actual work presented by those mediums. How can we analyze our relationships with forms and what can we gain from treating those relationships as text?

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