What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNNOriginally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of tel...

**A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transformation into a society that is shaped by technology—from the acclaimed author of Amusing Ourselves to Death."A provocative book ... A tool for fighting back against the tools that run our lives." —Dallas Morning News**The story of our society's transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it—with radical consequences for ...

In this comprehensive response to the education crisis, the author of Teaching as a Subversive Activity returns to the subject that established his reputation as one of our most insightful social critics. Postman presents useful models with which schools can restore a sense of purpose, tolerance, and a respect for learning.

At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary society, provides for us a source of guidance and inspiration. In Building a Bridge to the Eighteenth Century he revisits the Enlightenment, that great flowering of ideas that provided a humane direction for the future -- ...

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood.Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman, author of Technopoly, suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions be...

Divertirsi da morire di Neil Postman è una presa di coscienza collettiva dei caratteri distopici che la società in cui viviamo sta assumendo. Lo scenario però non è quello descritto da George Orwell in 1984, quello dell’abolizione della democrazia, della coercizione e della sorveglianza, della repressione del dissenso con la violenza: l’ambientazione è piuttosto quella immaginata da Aldous Huxley nel suo Il mondo nuovo, ovvero una distopia ben più insidiosa ed efficace, perché sed...

In this eloquent and persuasive book, Neil Postman examines the deep and broad effects of television culture on the manner in which we conduct our public affairs, and how “entertainment values” have corrupted the very way we think. As politics, news, religion, education, and commerce are given less and less expression in the form of the printed word, they are rapidly being reshaped to suit the requirements of television. And because television is a visual medium, whose images are most plea...

In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with technological novelty. Readers will find themselves rethinking many of their bedrock assumptions: Should education transmit culture or defend us against it? Is technological innovation progress or a peculiarly American addiction? When everyone...

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods—with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity“A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is a good thing: if they make even a dent in the pious . . . American classroom, the book will be worthwhile.”—New York Times Book Review“Teaching and knowledge are subversive in that...

Postman condensa la sua tesi esposta in questo libro in una frase: la stampa ha creato l'infanzia, la televisione la sta annullando. La sua tesi riposa su una contestazione: lo spettacolo televisivo, soprattutto lo spettacolo più che l'informazione, è visto quotidianamente tanto dall'adulto quanto dal bambino. Diviene un esperienza comune. Riduce la distanza tra le generazioni. Le età della vita tendono a contrarsi. Sono ridotte a tre: ad un estremo c'è la primissima infanzia, all'altro la...

In questa risposta vivacemente provocatoria riguardo i motivi della crisi dell'educazione, Neil Postman torna sull'argomento che lo ha visto come uno dei più profondi lettori della società. Partendo dalla considerazione del fatto che l'istruzione oggi è spesso affrontata con superficialità, è un esercizio meccanico, egli dimostra, con straordinaria chiarezza, che la scuola ha perso di vista il valore e la sostanza propri dell'apprendimento e propone di recuperarli prima che sia troppo tard...

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, Postman chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it. According to Postman, technology is rapidly gaining sovereignty over social institutions and national life to become self-justifying, self-perpetuating, and omnipresent. He warns that this will have radical consequences for the meanings of politics, art, religion, family, educati...