Neil Postman was published in the 1980s, a very fine article on museums from an analysis of EPCOT (which had applied for accreditation with the American Association of Museums). The book has just been reissued in Nova editions, this year, appeared for the first time in 1985. Excellent article, written in the tradition of McLuhan - the medium is the message or the medium is the metaphor - but with the consequences of this principle so certainly more pessimistic than the Canadian visionary.
The text has not aged a day, written with verve biting, detailing the effects of television culture on the reasoning and political discourse. Where one likes to read in the nineteenth century, election debates between Lincoln and Douglas lasted nearly seven hours ...
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