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The Birth of Photography and the Death of Letters: Virginia Woolf on the Fate of Every Technology

Summary by The Marginalian
An elegy for the triumph of commodity over creativity. At its dawn, every technology — like every new love — is aglow with the exhilaration of endless possibility. Its dark sides and eventual demise are unfathomable to the wildly optimistic psyche of the besotted, and besotted we invariably are with each new medium that sweeps across the landscape of culture with the forceful promise of a revolution. The polymath John Herschel, nephew of the tra…
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The Marginalian broke the news in on Saturday, February 28, 2026.
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