Is Forgiveness Possible in a Digital World?
A Conversation With John Durham Peters
12.00–1.30pm | Friday, October 10
Elm Library, 31 Whitney Avenue
What does the new mode of incessant documentation of raw behavior mean for the possibility of both forgiveness and the process of collective learning which is essential to public deliberation. If every word or deed is frozen in its first draft, what then? What are causes and consequences of the obsessive interpretation of small nonverbal gestures at the expense of speech. Is a reformist or redemptive rethinking of this communication infrastructure possible? What are the morally distorting effects of omnipresent surveillance?
John Durham Peters is Maria Rosa Menocal Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies, Yale University.
This event is open to all members of the Yale community. Lunch will be served.
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Pray you now, forget, and forgive.
—Shakespeare, King Lear