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Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

By Jerry Mander

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| Paperback | 9780688082741

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A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous -- to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes -- that TContinue

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YOU'LL NEVER SEE A TV SET THE SAME WAY AGAIN

Excellent book, it makes you think of how TV imagery -and content- affects our own capacity to create personal images by interfering with our perception of reality; it questions how light -and TV light in particular- may have negative effects on our psyche and health, and over all it makes you thin ... (continue)

Excellent book, it makes you think of how TV imagery -and content- affects our own capacity to create personal images by interfering with our perception of reality; it questions how light -and TV light in particular- may have negative effects on our psyche and health, and over all it makes you think on how passively we absorb TV imagery and content, how little "give" we can do for all the "take " we actually do.

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