Amusing Ourselves to Death
The dawn of post-literate society - with Jared Henderson and James Marriott
youtube.comYou cannot do political philosophy on television. Its form works against the content.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death
Or adds to it, depending on frame
Re: TikTok
Reading is letting someone else model the world for you. This is an act of intimacy.
Simon Sarris • Reading Well - by Simon Sarris - The Map is Mostly Water Reading Well
Ta-Nehisi Coates said a similar thing, that the people who ban books perhaps know something others that are more kind to them don't. That reading is a form of intimacy between the reader and the writer. You can't control the narrative the reader is forming within their heads, like you can with other forms of media. [[Amusing Ourselves to Death]].
Attention For Sale: A Mini-Documentary (ATTN4$)
youtube.comOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
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Jun 5, 2022
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Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented.... See more
@OlufemiOTaiwo
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Jun 5, 2022
elite capture in an important corner of the information economy
Policy Tensor
@policytensor
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Jun 5, 2022
Replying to @policytensor
Six corporations control 90% of media consumed by Americans, the most voracious consumers of media in the world. This degree of concentration in unprecedented.... See more
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Intellectualism as a cesspool - maybe that’s a feature, not a bug.
On the importance of reading, responding, and writing to and for one another to advance ideas
Beyonce is Everything
youtube.comBeyoncé and her co-opted capitalist failed revolutionary politics
