{"id":1364,"date":"2015-07-24T16:46:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2015-07-24T16:46:01","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T16:46:01","slug":"review-of-palimpsest-by-matthew-battles-books-the-boston-globe-24-july-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/07\/24\/review-of-palimpsest-by-matthew-battles-books-the-boston-globe-24-july-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Review of \u201cPalimpsest\u201d by Matthew Battles &#8211; Books &#8211; The Boston Globe, 24 July 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Matthew Battles\u2019s \u201cPalimpsest: A History of the Written Word\u201d is an exploration of the \u201cmagisterium of writing,\u201d which is his way of describing writing\u2019s robust and inescapable \u201cinfluence on human experience.\u201d Rather than a dense, comprehensive history of writing and literacy, Battles, a program fellow at Harvard\u2019s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and the author of \u201cLibrary: An Unquiet History,\u201d offers a meditation on the uses, abuses, and misunderstandings of writing across cultures and centuries, from early pictographic representations to contemporary computing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/arts\/books\/2015\/07\/23\/review-palimpsest-matthew-battles\/pBMjUaLQTWkKirr9nUA0BP\/story.html\">Review of \u201cPalimpsest\u201d by Matthew Battles &#8211; Books &#8211; The Boston Globe<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthew Battles\u2019s \u201cPalimpsest: A History of the Written Word\u201d is an exploration of the \u201cmagisterium of writing,\u201d which is his way of describing writing\u2019s robust and inescapable \u201cinfluence on human experience.\u201d Rather than a dense, comprehensive history of writing and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2015\/07\/24\/review-of-palimpsest-by-matthew-battles-books-the-boston-globe-24-july-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6502"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1364\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}