--- product_id: 775592259 title: "Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business" price: "€ 3700.85" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 7 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/775592259-amusing-ourselves-to-death-public-discourse-in-the-age-show store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business **Price:** € 3700.85 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - **How much does it cost?** € 3700.85 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/775592259-amusing-ourselves-to-death-public-discourse-in-the-age-show) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart配送商品ならAmusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Businessが通常配送無料。更にdesertcartならポイント還元本が多数。Postman, Neil, Postman, Andrew作品ほか、お急ぎ便対象商品は当日お届けも可能。 Review: Written about hoe television mangles society’s ability to think, it is certainly relevant in a world of instant access to distraction. The conversion of news to entertainment discussion is particularly relevant even if he may romanticize the extent of rational thought in what he calls The Age of Exposition. I especially like his discussion of the “Now this” phenomena which reduces all news to instant entertainment. Review: Still fresh and poignant. A couple of things sadden me about this text. Firstly, why have I not heard of this until recently? Secondly why is/was Professor Postman not more famous? In respect of the latter point he crosses numerous threads with Chompsky and whilst I am not inferring he is quite in that company, his thinking certainly warranted much more exposure that he clearly received. Whether through personal choice, fate or media's backlash I don not know. Suffice to say that the time given over to imbeciles and the freaks of society grasping for the 15 minutes on reality television is an enormous travesty. This is an absolutely wonderful treatise on not only television, but society-at-large too and the shifting cultural paradigms that Professor Postman was no doubt entangled in 1985. As the introduction alludes to, this book is perhaps more relevant to contemporary audiences that historical ones and clearly has a lot still to add to the debate - a debate we sadly seem to have stopped having - well some of you have... Rather than give my further opinion, I would simply like to offer you some of my favourite quotes from the text in a hope this will inspire the reader to go out and purchase a copy of this book. “We know enough about language to understand that variations in the structures of languages will result in variations in what may be called the “world-view”” (p.10) “The new imagery, with photography at its forefront, did not merely function as a supplement to language, but bid to replace it as our dominant means for construing, understanding and testing reality.” (p.74) “Television has acieved the status of “meta-medium” - an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the world, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well.” (p. 78) “A technology becomes a medium as it employs a particular symbolic code, as it finds its place in a particular social setting, as it insinuates itself into economic and political contexts. A technology in other words, is merely, a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.” (p.84) "There are two ways by which the spirit of our culture may be shriveled. In the first- the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes burlesque." (p.155) ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Amazon 売れ筋ランキング | 洋書 - 29,420位 ( 洋書の売れ筋ランキングを見る ) TV History & Criticism - 9位 Telecommunications (洋書) - 22位 Communication & Media Studies - 101位 | | ISBN-10 | 014303653X | | ISBN-13 | 978-0143036531 | | カスタマーレビュー | 4.6 5つ星のうち4.6 (3,837) var dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction; P.when('A', 'ready').execute(function(A) { if (dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction !== true) { dpAcrHasRegisteredArcLinkClickAction = true; A.declarative( 'acrLink-click-metrics', 'click', { "allowLinkDefault": true }, function (event) { if (window.ue) { ue.count("acrLinkClickCount", (ue.count("acrLinkClickCount") || 0) + 1); } } ); … | | ペーパーバック | 208ページ | | 出版社 | Penguin Publishing Group; Anniversary版 (2005/12/27) | | 寸法 | 1.52 x 12.95 x 19.56 cm | | 発売日 | 2005/12/27 | | 言語 | 英語 | ## Images ![Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/7111-QqvNCL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by C***N on 2022年10月14日に日本でレビュー済み* Written about hoe television mangles society’s ability to think, it is certainly relevant in a world of instant access to distraction. The conversion of news to entertainment discussion is particularly relevant even if he may romanticize the extent of rational thought in what he calls The Age of Exposition. I especially like his discussion of the “Now this” phenomena which reduces all news to instant entertainment. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by P***S on 2012年9月14日に日本でレビュー済み* Still fresh and poignant. A couple of things sadden me about this text. Firstly, why have I not heard of this until recently? Secondly why is/was Professor Postman not more famous? In respect of the latter point he crosses numerous threads with Chompsky and whilst I am not inferring he is quite in that company, his thinking certainly warranted much more exposure that he clearly received. Whether through personal choice, fate or media's backlash I don not know. Suffice to say that the time given over to imbeciles and the freaks of society grasping for the 15 minutes on reality television is an enormous travesty. This is an absolutely wonderful treatise on not only television, but society-at-large too and the shifting cultural paradigms that Professor Postman was no doubt entangled in 1985. As the introduction alludes to, this book is perhaps more relevant to contemporary audiences that historical ones and clearly has a lot still to add to the debate - a debate we sadly seem to have stopped having - well some of you have... Rather than give my further opinion, I would simply like to offer you some of my favourite quotes from the text in a hope this will inspire the reader to go out and purchase a copy of this book. “We know enough about language to understand that variations in the structures of languages will result in variations in what may be called the “world-view”” (p.10) “The new imagery, with photography at its forefront, did not merely function as a supplement to language, but bid to replace it as our dominant means for construing, understanding and testing reality.” (p.74) “Television has acieved the status of “meta-medium” - an instrument that directs not only our knowledge of the world, but our knowledge of ways of knowing as well.” (p. 78) “A technology becomes a medium as it employs a particular symbolic code, as it finds its place in a particular social setting, as it insinuates itself into economic and political contexts. A technology in other words, is merely, a machine. A medium is the social and intellectual environment a machine creates.” (p.84) "There are two ways by which the spirit of our culture may be shriveled. In the first- the Orwellian - culture becomes a prison. In the second - the Huxleyan - culture becomes burlesque." (p.155) ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Review *by A***É on 2017年4月20日にスペインでレビュー済み* Even though it was written many years ago, this book is a must read for anyone qho want to understand our society today. The same goes for Aldous Huxley "A brave New World". 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