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Lee Siegel

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December 05, 1957 in Bronx, New York, The United States

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Lee Siegel is a New York writer and cultural critic who has written for Harper's, The New Republic, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and many other publications. Siegel is a senior editor at The New Republic and lives in New York City with his wife and son.

In September 2006, Siegel was temporarily suspended from The New Republic, after an internal investigation determined he was participating in misleading comments in the magazine's "Talkback" section, in response to anonymous attackers on his blog at The New Republic's website. The comments were made through the device of a "sock puppet" dubbed "sprezzatura", who, as one reader noted, was a consistently vigorous defender of Siegel, and who specifically...more

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Books by Lee Siegel

Average rating: 3.09 · 280 ratings · 84 reviews · 18 distinct works

	Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob 2.80 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 2008 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television 2.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Harvard is Burning 2.88 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Against the Machine: How the Web is Reshaping Culture and Commerce -- and Why It Matters 3.60 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination 3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Are You Serious?: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly 2.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Mundo a Traves de Una Pantalla, El 2.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2008	My rating:
	Are You Serious? 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2012	My rating:
	Are You Serious?: How to Be True and Get Real in the Age of Silly 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Love and the Incredibly Old Man 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“They were learning how to perform their privacy.”
― Lee Siegel, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

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“The assimilation of taboo images to the everyday language of doing business produces a strange effect. It domesticates the taboo while at the same time making the everyday transactional world more porous, more open to the forbidden. The wolf of unbridled appetite slips into everyday convention in the sheep's clothing of commercial language.”
― Lee Siegel, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

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“Everything, taboo and familiar, occurs on the same screen.”
― Lee Siegel, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob

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