Neil Postman, "Huxley and Orwell"
Running 'Cause I Can't Fly (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
... feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us." - Neil Postman, comparing "Brave New World" and "1984"
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p-ramblings (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
... that we all are used to from t.v. and the way we just take it in stride (this reminds me of neil postman's "now . . . this" conjunction"). then hollo throws in “it is late,” which suggest the lateness of the hour of watching t.v. with its feeling of fatigue (we might be forgiven since we are tired!) or perhaps the “it is late” plays on the notion...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
richard cleaver (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
We recently held an engagement party for my daughter and her fiance. I had an opportunity to spend a little time with the father of my future son-in-law. An interesting and very intellectual man. We had a discussion about the role of technology in life and during our discussion he asked me if I had read Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death”. The book was written in 1985. If you...
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The Quality of Public We Now Have
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Nine months ago, in the comments to this post , Brandy at Afterthoughts wrote a comment that deserved a post all its own. So here it is: I'm going through Neil Postman's "The End of Education." He is favorable concerning public education, and yet reading his work has given me some strong arguments against the public school! In one of the first chapters he writes: "[T]he...
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Modernity’s Darkness, Distinctness, and Technology
Cato Unbound (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... One could also refer to people such as Lewis Mumford, Christopher Lasch, Jacques Ellul, or Neil Postman. The modern world has brought huge benefits and betterment of conditions to literally billions of people, compared to what has gone before but it has also seen domination and oppression on a scale never seen before. One argument is to see this as the triumph of bad ideas, another...
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My Most Influential Books
Got Shares? (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
... law school. Late 20's : Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom . See here for more. Early 30's : Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death . It's sickening to see everything Mr. Postman predicted coming true, and yet, no one seems to care. What books influenced you the most? Please feel free to share book suggestions by leaving a comment.
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Cyber Or 32 Technological Change: Five Ideas
http://israelseen.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror Again, I call on my media mentor Professor Neil Postman to relate to what he and in many ways, I, see as at least five things we need to know about technological Change. Basically, the idea is to realize that technology is just a tool at all. It certainly is NOT a [...]
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i will visit bhutan (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Because you miss my writing, critique this piece of complete shit! Its really awful but possibly entertaining, a first draft for an essay for my english class. The essays I refer to are Dave Eggars' "Serve or Fail," Stanley Fish's "Why We Built the Ivory Tower," and Neil Postman's "Order in the Classroom." Postman addresses a deteriorating educational...
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Aldous Huxley Was Right: Tech is Making Us Shallow
The Gadget Blog (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... (click the thumbnail below for the full version): The comic above is basically a visual version of Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death. Source Post from: The Gadget Blog Post from: The Gadget Blog
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Cyber Or 31 Technological Competition Part I
http://israelseen.com/feed/ (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
By Rabbi Dr. Moshe Dror I had the great good fortune and privilege to study with one of the most significant Media commentators of our era-Professor Neil Postman. I studied with him for my PhD at New York University in the Media Ecology program that he originated and ran. I would like to put some of [...]
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Shorties (Chuck Klosterman, R.E.M., and more)
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
The Wall Street Journal reviews Chuck Klosterman's new essay collection, Eating the Dinosaur. Another media critic, Neil Postman, once argued—in the title of one of his books—that we are "amusing ourselves to death." But Mr. Klosterman's relentlessly thoughtful prose makes...
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The Media Are Schrodinger’s Cat
Media Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
... Two specific examples come to mind: Fox News and The New York Times . Such Fox News vaudeville (Neil Postman’s label in Amusing Ourselves To Death ) performers such as Glenn Beck, Bill O’Reilly, and Sean Hannity are clearly hopelessly biased entertainers whose emotional appeals attract an uneducated or incurious audience. On the other hand, Fox News reporter Major Garrett...
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The Freakin' Patriarchy and Their Jackbooted Jackboots of Oppression
Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
... First Things arguing that blogs are not doing people who love language any favors. Riffing on what Neil Postman wrote two generations ago about television (the book was Amusing Ourselves to Death), McDaniel worries about what blogging has done to our attention spans. That literature is worth saving, he takes as a given, and good for him. Although he doesn't put it quite this way,...
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Reverence for Words: A Case Against Blogging
FIRST THINGS (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... is trying to do very important business with increasingly debased currency. Which brings to mind Neil Postman. Next year marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of Postman's seminal Amusing Ourselves to Death . This crotchety but funny and incisive little book diagnosed American political discourse as frivolous two decades before George Weigel, writing in First Things ' pages, condemned...
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A case against blogging?
The Paragraph Farmer (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Stefan McDaniel has a heartfelt blog post at First Things arguing that blogs are not doing people who love language any favors. Riffing on what Neil Postman wrote two generations ago about television (the book wsa Amusing Ourselves to Death ), McDaniel implies that literature is built for comfort, not for speed. That said, he worries that the proliferation of blogs now makes it more difficult...
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