being the fedora I am I just finished all of Neil Postman's books can anyone recommend me anything else? For what it's worth I'm going through Present Shock right now (already read Future Shock too) inb4 plebs ask who Postman is

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Anonymous Sat Dec 13 22:26:49 2014 No.5858081 [Reply] [Original]

being the fedora I am I just finished all of Neil Postman's books

can anyone recommend me anything else? For what it's worth I'm going through Present Shock right now (already read Future Shock too)

inb4 plebs ask who Postman is

>>	Anonymous Sat Dec 13 22:33:20 2014 No.5858098 >>5858081 This will inevitably turn into a BNW vs. 1984 thread Also Postman is the reason most people misread BNW

Anonymous Sat Dec 13 22:34:12 2014 No.5858100

>>5858081
>inb4 plebs ask who Postman is
oh sorry van dijk, some people might not be familiar with your incredibly obscure and complex summary of books with "analysis" of the "post-modern age". mr. mass media expert and his obtuse penguin books pop "theory" is too much to handle.

Muck Bulligan !!ryE2gEjGbpu Sat Dec 13 22:36:19 2014 No.5858111
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>>5858081
holy fuck, i remember reading this in middle school, throwback

you're looking for other media theory books? you might look into marshall mcluhan

>or baudrillard

Anonymous Sat Dec 13 22:37:17 2014 No.5858114

>>5858098

>implying it's not Fahrenheit 451

it's just a combo of BNW and 1984 though

>>5858100

pop theory implies that he's popular in the first place m8, which never really took off because he refused to do TV interviews until very late in his life

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