January/February 1995
Utne Reader
Neil Postman worries that we may be amusing ourselves to death.
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A social critic and communications theorist, he is the author of
Teaching as a Subversive Activity a call for radical
education reform co-authored by Charles Weingartner in the early
70's, Teaching as a Conserving Activity, promoting a stable
learning environment to counter the fragmented education offered by
television and electronic media, and The Disappearance of
Childhood, a look at the deterioration of the social category
of childhood in the wake of television and entertainment media.
Postman challenges our habits of discourse using insights gleaned
from psychology, history, semantics and popular culture in his
sharp essays on contemporary popular culture. Recent books include,
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology and
Conscientious Objections: Stirring up Trouble About Language,
Technology and Education.