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Description
371 pages ; 21 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-371).
Contents
1. The belly of the beast -- 2. War to control the unity machine -- The mediation of experience -- 3. The walling of awareness -- 4. Expropriation of knowledge -- 5. Adrift in mental space -- The colonization of experience -- 6. Advertising : the standard-gauge railway -- 7. The centralization of control -- Effects of television on the human being -- 8. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized -- 9. The ingestion of artificial light -- 10. How television dims the mind -- 11. How we turn into our images -- 12. The replacement of human images by television -- The inherent biases of television -- 13. Information loss -- 14. Images disconnected from source -- 15. Artificial unusualness -- 16. The pieces that fall through the filter -- Impossible thoughts -- 17. Television taboo.
Summary
Depicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autocratic power.
