Forty years ago, Neil Postman wrote Amusing Ourselves to Death, a piercing analysis of the effect television had on American knowledge, communication, and culture. This series will revisit Postman’s account of America’s shift from a culture of print to a culture of pictures, and ask how it helps us understand the digital technological shift that Postman never lived to see.

Since Postman’s death in 2003, America has undergone another technological revolution as the age of TV morphed into the digital age of the internet, social media, and smartphones. This week we will consider Postman’s analysis of television and how it applies to the digital age.

On Wednesday, February 5, at 6 PM, join Nathaniel Peters (Morningside) for this seminar on our lost culture of print. Dinner will be provided. Please register with the form below.