The new search

Jenny Hendrix has a finely measured review of Sven Birkerts’s new book,Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Digital Age,in Boston Review. Toward the end, before calling for a new poetry, she writes:

The activity conducted in both church and marketplace is a kind of search, which is of course central to what this technology is for: not just Google, but GPS, dating apps, Netflix, Facebook, Amazon—all guide us toward what they think we want. The shift from cathedral to bazaar represe...