Neil Postman
American media critic (1931 to 2003); author of Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985).
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Huxley, not Orwell, may have been right about what threatens us
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
archive.orgSaid c. 1985This on korrents
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Huxley, not Orwell, may have been right about what threatens us
This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Penguin, 2006 edition of the 1985 book) Said c. 1985
Television is the main way a culture now knows itself
Television is our culture's principal mode of knowing about itself.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Penguin, 2006 edition of the 1985 book) Said c. 1985
Americans no longer talk to each other; they entertain each other
Americans no longer talk to each other, they entertain each other.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Penguin, 2006 edition of the 1985 book) Said c. 1985
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Television, not print, now shapes our information, ideas and ways of knowing
We are now a culture whose information, ideas and epistemology are given form by television, not by the printed word.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Penguin, 2006 edition of the 1985 book) Said c. 1985
Each medium makes possible its own mode of discourse
Each medium, like language itself, makes possible a unique mode of discourse by providing a new orientation for thought, for expression, for sensibility.
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Penguin, 2006 edition of the 1985 book) Said c. 1985
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