“Culture is also something personal; it is cultivation with respect to the appreciation of ideas and art and broad human interests. When efficiency is identified with a narrow range of acts, instead of with the spirit and meaning of activity, culture is opposed to efficiency.”
—John Dewey, Democracy and Education, 1916
For the past year, Triple Canopy's editors and designers have been planning an ambitious new online publishing platform. TC 3.0, as we're calling it, will not only revolutionize Triple Canopy’s work on the Web but forge meaningful connections between print publications and live programming, and so illuminate the entire sphere of Triple Canopy’s activities. Here's a taste of what we've been thinking, taken from a new essay on culture and technology written by the editors:
Triple Canopy 3.0: Internet lingo, surely, but useful enough. Refresh is a nicer name for the profound website redesign we’re working on, and all the money we’ve got to raise to pay for it. Profound, of course, is a suspicious word for a website, though certainly much better than disruptive. But it’s not just a redesign, and it’s not just a website, and it isprofound, deep-seated, hard for us to fathom; it’s a rethinking, from the ground up, of how we create culture and a coherent body of knowledge in a resistant, efficient, particularized world. We’re very excited. This is important to us. But it’s tough work, and not cheap; even describing it is difficult, and we have almost as many questions as answers. Which is why we’re appealing to you.