Four arguments for the elimination of television
Depicts television as a technological monster, a menace to the psychology of the individual and to the environment, and an instrument of unprecedented autorcratic power.
| Main Author: | Mander, Jerry. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York :
Morrow,
1978.
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| Physical Description: |
371 pages ; 22 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The belly of the beast ; War to control the unity machine
- The mediation of experience. The walling of awareness ; Expropriation of knowledge ; Adrift in mental space
- The colonization of experience.
- Advertising : the standard-gauge railway ; The centralization of control
- Effects of television on the human being. Anecdotal reports : sick, crazy, mesmerized ; The ingestion of artificial light ; How television dims the mind ; How we turn into our images ; The replacement of human images by television
- The inherent biases of television. Information loss ; Images disconnected from source ; Artificial unusualness ; The pieces that fall through the filter
- Impossible thoughts. Television taboo.