A bad case of nostalgia: Critique of Andrew Keen’s The cult of the amateur
Eerder deze maand ging publiciste Karin Spaink in Felix Meritis in discussie met Andrew Keen (bekend van zijn boek ‘The Cult of the Amateur; how todays Internet is Killing our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy’). Hieronder Spainks (Engelse) bijdrage aan het debat, die eerder ook al op haar weblog verscheen.
Deciding upon the manner of my response to Mr Keen’s book required much, much more time than composing the response itself. It’s truly seductive to be scathing about the The Cult of the Amateur. Making an inventory of the book’s sloppy argumentation, its fallacious reasoning, its myopic stance, its uncritical praise of copyright, its unwitting foot soldiery of the entertainment industry, its selective choice of facts and its misquotations would be quite to the point – especially since Mr Keen accuses ‘today’s internet’ of being unwitting foot soldiers, sloppy, myopic, uncritical, selective, misrepresentative and fallacious.
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