Dumbing down : essays on the strip mining of American culture /

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Other Authors: Washburn, Katharine, Thornton, John F., 1942-, Simon, John, 1925-2019
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W.W. Norton, 1996.
Edition:First edition.
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505 0 |a Pt. 1. Education. The postmodern schoolhouse -- The question of our speech: the return to aural culture -- Writing down together -- The erosion of the social sciences -- The saving minutes -- Circling the squires -- Pt. 2. Arts & sciences. Last night at the planetarium -- Voodoo science -- I'll take my stand: a defense of popular culture -- The last taboo -- What to do about the arts -- Pt. 3. The media. "But first, a word from our sponsor": advertising and the carnivalization of culture -- Homo virtualis -- The facts of fiction and the fiction of facts -- pt. 4. Public life -- Egalitarianism and diversity -- Kitsch religion -- America's fantasy urbanism: the waxing of the mall and the waning of civility -- The trivialization of tragedy -- "I feel good to be a black male" -- Pt. 5. Private life. Cooking dumb, eating dumb -- What's the story? -- Does sex still exist? 
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