Description: David Porush on new media, old media, Jewish texts and
The arc of media is long and bends towards telepathy.
Telepathy literally means “sending feelings.” It has come to mean reading minds.
I doubt that the science-fiction, ESP, fantastical sense of having superpowers to get thoughts directly out of one mind into another is real … though my dog often surprises me. But we do have great tools and technologies for approximating telepathy. We call them media – the things between people we use to communicate to each other – like telephones (pretty intimate), writing (maybe more intimate), Twitter and Instagram and radio (broadcast media), and Facebook (purportedly intimate but selectively broadcast