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…
Tag: future media
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…
On Borges’ Discovery of the Internet Before it Existed
This is a fantastic post which manages to marry my interests in Borges and sleep/insomnia very effectively! Borges’ “The Library of Babel” is usually cited as a conceptual precursor to…
Review of “Future Media”, ed. Rick Wilber, SF Site, 2012
I had a fruitful email correspondence with Rick Wilber after this. My dislike of the uncritical celebration fan fic – also evident here – as something radical and innovative rather than derivative…
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