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Bookmark or Share- Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show ...Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century.
- Amusing Ourselves to Death - WikipediaPostman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights.
- Neil Postman - WikipediaNeil Postman (March 8, 1931 – October 5, 2003) was an American author, educator, media theorist and cultural critic, who eschewed digital technology, including personal computers, mobile devices, and cruise control in cars, and was critical of uses of technology, such as personal computers in school. [1]
- Neil Postman | Media Theory, Social Criticism & Education | BritannicaNeil Postman was an American educator, media theorist, and social critic who made contributions to the discipline of media studies, the critical analysis of technology, and the philosophy of education.
- How Neil Postman's 1984 work anticipated our post-literate age – The ...Published in 1984, Neil Postman's 'Amusing Ourselves to Death' anticipated a world oversaturated with images divorced from meaning.
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