{"id":888,"date":"2009-03-25T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/2009\/03\/25\/age-of-commodified-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T19:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:04:00","slug":"age-of-commodified-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2009\/03\/25\/age-of-commodified-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Commodified Intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div>New York Times, March 23, 2009, 5:13 am\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>An \u2018Age of Commodified Intelligence\u2019<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Today\u2019s idea: We are in an \u201cage of commodified intelligence\u201d \u2014 a time not of great enlightenment but of mere intellectual acquisition and credential-building lacking in deep understanding.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Culture | The magazine Intelligent Life recently put forth the contrarian notion that we are in age not of dumbing down but of smartening up \u2014 an \u201cage of mass intelligence\u201d characterized by rises in attendance at museums, literary festivals, operas and so forth.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But now comes a reader\u2019s contrarian argument to that contrarian argument: We are actually only in an \u201cage of commodified intelligence\u201d \u2014 a \u201ctime of conspicuously consumed high culture in which intellectual life is meticulously measured and branded\u201d but generally without true appreciation, writes George Balgobin.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cFacebook is devoted to cataloguing this cultural rebirth,\u201d he adds. \u201cHere people curate their personas and project them at the world.\u201d Yes, the lights are on, but is anybody home? [More Intelligent Life]<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>http:\/\/ideas.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/03\/23\/an-age-of-commodified-intelligence\/?ex=1253419200&#038;en=785d12f10c047ad3&#038;ei=5087&#038;WT.mc_id=BL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M087-ROS-0309-L2&#038;WT.mc_ev=click<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Times, March 23, 2009, 5:13 am\u00a0 An \u2018Age of Commodified Intelligence\u2019 Today\u2019s idea: We are in an \u201cage of commodified intelligence\u201d \u2014 a time not of great enlightenment but of mere intellectual acquisition and credential-building lacking in deep understanding.\u00a0 Culture | The magazine Intelligent Life recently put forth the contrarian notion that we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}