 | The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $6.75 Heavy. Whole wheat.
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 | Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
Buy new: $10.40 / Used from: $1.88 Best basic primer if, like me in 1995, you are at the "What's wrong with technology?! Computers are cool!" phase.
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 | How to Watch TV News by Neil Postman
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Great. Simple. Penetrating. Dormer NYU prof, died a few years ago.
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 | Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
Buy used from: $0.01 Title is self-explanatory.
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 | Teaching As a Subversive Activity by Neil Postman
Buy new: $13.50 / Used from: $8.27 I know, a lot of Postman. This is one of the things that got me interested in teaching after I quit my advertising job.
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 | Harvard and the Unabomber: The Education of an American Terrorist by Alston Chase
Buy used from: $3.00 Find TK's manifesto on the internet if you dare. (Computer gone in the morning, papers scattered.)
Except for one chilling little sentence - "therefore, we've had to kill people" - lots of fascinating stuff.
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 | Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman
Buy new: $12.89 / Used from: $7.98 Chomsky's too smart. Can't imagine him doing it or eating fudge. But essential. Social criticism's Led Zeppelin.
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 | In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations by Jerry Mander
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.00 Wow. The big daddy. "Don't read this if you don't want to quit your job, David" Jacques said. Like dunking your head in ice water. Great.
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 | Pensees (Penguin Classics) by Blaise Pascal
Buy new: $9.60 / Used from: $3.49 This stuff is too heavy for me. Maybe you'll get it.
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 | The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition For Upbuilding And Awakening (Kierkegaard's Writings, Vol 19) by Soren Kierkegaard
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $4.50 I don't really get Kierkegaard.
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 | Vest-Pocket New Testament: King James Version
Buy new: $3.49 / Used from: $2.00 Pretty sure this was the version Jacques read every day. The foundation of all his other reading. If it didn't square up with the Bible, forget it.
Lots of time spent with Solomon, Book of Wisdom. "David, he was the smartest man the in world, AND the richest man in the world. Don't you think it's worth listening to what he has to say?" Followed by mad laugh...
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 | Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and U.S. Political Culture by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $2.46 Kind of a mind-blower for a JFK liberal who could more easily swallow Chomsky's other stuff. Harsh stuff.
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