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The Middle Mind is the dominant force shaping our culture today. Seeping into politics, literature and art, it's all about pre-packaged, easily digestible media that requires no thought. And it's creating an increasing inability to properly consider the development of our society, or to initiate change. But while this sounds (and is) deadly serious, it's not only about the lack of intelligent discussion of the war in Iraq or the Kyoto agreement - it's about the music we listen to, the films we watch and the books we read, from Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey to Harry Potter and The Hours. Scathingly humorous, irreverent and far-reaching, this book is for anyone who's ever been riled by current political debate, dismayed by critical theory or bemused by the prominence of Celine Dion in the charts, in a society which promises culture but can only manage TV.… (meer)
An interesting book. Sometimes I think he simplifies some issues, but he makes you think. Society is changing, Corporations are getting more powerful than Countries, we are all being encouraged to be middle or low-brow. Not to want excellence in anything and not to read outside the box. He points at the fact that rocking the boat can and will cause problems with other people, particularly governments and corporations and that it really is in no-one's interest short-term to do so, however if we don't occasionally rock the boat what other people want us to do is what will happen, whether it serves our long-term interests or not. ( )
Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
for John, Nick, Charlie, and David, whose respective geniuses have made the ongoing Normal years something extraordinary for me.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
I've suspected for some time that there's something missing in the way we usually construct the Culture Wars.
Introduction: One afternoon, about fifteen years ago, the artist Nicolas Africano and I were visiting a common friend, Bill Morgan, who was recovering from surgery in a hospital here in Normal, Illinois.
Foreword: First a Brain Wash, Then Freedom of Speech In the summer of 2001, in the course of my habitual dipping into and out of what passes in American culture for Culture, it felt as if my nose were being rubbed in something.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
If we can learn to use them, perhaps we will someday answer Williams's question, "What would have happened in a world...lit by the imagination?"
The Middle Mind is the dominant force shaping our culture today. Seeping into politics, literature and art, it's all about pre-packaged, easily digestible media that requires no thought. And it's creating an increasing inability to properly consider the development of our society, or to initiate change. But while this sounds (and is) deadly serious, it's not only about the lack of intelligent discussion of the war in Iraq or the Kyoto agreement - it's about the music we listen to, the films we watch and the books we read, from Jonathan Franzen and Oprah Winfrey to Harry Potter and The Hours. Scathingly humorous, irreverent and far-reaching, this book is for anyone who's ever been riled by current political debate, dismayed by critical theory or bemused by the prominence of Celine Dion in the charts, in a society which promises culture but can only manage TV.
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He points at the fact that rocking the boat can and will cause problems with other people, particularly governments and corporations and that it really is in no-one's interest short-term to do so, however if we don't occasionally rock the boat what other people want us to do is what will happen, whether it serves our long-term interests or not. (