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The Perfect Machine: Television and the Bomb
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September 27, 2025I'm going to good reads website to GET AWAY from Amazon and you have a link to go to Amazon for the book. SO SADDD....
March 6, 2012
This was one of my favorite books as a young adult. I was in some kind of phase of self-righteous introspection so a book like this really worked me into a frenzy. It has, though, withstood my hopeful maturation. I've really enjoyed the introduction. The rest of the book is abstractly interesting.
A nuclear detonation may be the ultimate visual orgasm and the parallel with television is haunting and utterly apt. But I wonder if Joyce Nelson's perspective would have been different had she, back in 1992, been able to watch Jersey Shore.
A nuclear detonation may be the ultimate visual orgasm and the parallel with television is haunting and utterly apt. But I wonder if Joyce Nelson's perspective would have been different had she, back in 1992, been able to watch Jersey Shore.
May 30, 2009
This is one of the best critiques of television I've ever read -- Nelson details the coma induced state elicited by television and the corresponding social/political/ecological consequences.
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