What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever."It's unlikely that Trump...

Wir amüsieren uns zu Tode. Urteilsbildung im Zeitalter der Unterhaltungsindustrie

In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is...

A no-holds-barred assault on outdated teaching methods-with dramatic and practical proposals on how education can be made relevant to today's world.Praise for Teaching As a Subversive Activity"A healthy dose of Postman and Weingartner is...

Teaching as a Subversive Activity (Penguin education)

Was heißt es, wenn in Medien und Politik die Logik des Entertainment Einzug hält? Wenn unser Bild von der Welt davon bestimmt wird, welche Bilder uns die Medien zeigen? Und wenn das Zerstreuungsgeschäft an die Stelle von...

Dieses Buch bricht den faulen Frieden, den die Erwachsenen mit der Gleichgültigkeit geschlossen haben, um die Welt bis in die Nischen hinein nach ihrem Bilde einzurichten. Es handelt von dem vielleicht folgenschwersten kulturellen...

A staple text on media and cultural studies courses, rejacketed and reissued with a new introduction.

From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today−and the corresponding threat to the notion of...

Postman suggests that the current crisis in our educational system derives from its failure to supply students with a translucent, unifying "narrative" like those that inspired earlier generations. Instead, today's schools promote the...