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.

This week we will look at how television shaped all aspects of American culture. What happens when religion, education, and politics become forms of entertainment?

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, and find the reading of chapter six of Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death linked below.