Via YouTube, here is a video of Neil Postman on the surrender of culture to technology from 1997
Yes, I can appreciate the irony of sharing this YouTube video on WordPress.
Month: September 2016
Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death 31 years on
I read quite a lot of Neil Postman about a decade ago. Always a readable and provocative voice, I must admit I take him rather less seriously since reading more…
The cultural hegemony of television: review of “Everything Bad is Good For You” by Steven Johnson – SAU Blog Dec 6, 2006
One of the disheartening things (for me) about how the online world has developed is the primacy of television as a cultural reference point. In the early years of…
The Importance of Dead Wood
“Dead wood” – a phrase that has entered common discourse to signify something that needs to be cleared away to enable growth and development. Whereas in reality deadwood is a…
Fred Neil. The Dolphins, and the dolphins
Lately I’ve been listening to a good bit of Fred Neil. Neil gave Bob Dylan his first gig (he managed the daytime schedule at the folk club Cafe Wha?) and…
Deer ears
My post on forest bathing on A Medical Education may have seemed a little sceptical in tone. That’s because it was in terms of the claims made for forest bathing…
No green to be seen: a biodiversity desert on Slievenamon
Two weeks ago I walked on Slievenamon, not all the way to the summit but simply up the path near Kilcash and then around the area just where this path…
Crow Songs: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed, Rossini
Blogging about rain songs, I was faced with an embarrassment of riches, and left out many worthy numbers. For no particular reason except I like them, I decided to blog this…
Séamus Sweeney 