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The title says it all - the Sublimity of American modern technology. A really interesting spin on the sublime

Some fun with the technological sublime. Very closely related to the digital sublime.

"the full effect of the terror Burke stresses in the sublime hadn't taken shape for me until recently, watching over and over the first 30-second video clip of the Deepwater Horizon oil leak. This is a frightful image in its murky greenness. And the scope of what this simple video loop suggests is nearly beyond the capacity to describe. It certainly follows several of Burke's qualifications of the sublime - the terror of the scope, the obscurity and privation of the bottom of the ocean, the suggestion of infinity - but it also raises even more questions in regard to what a particularly contemporary sublime might encompass. "

This post is reviewing a book, but includes a personal anecdote about finding the 'terror' aspect of the sublime in an internet video.