The Image Life

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The Image Life

• Postman vs. Paglia

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Neil Postman Background

• Writer, Media/Social Critic, Educational
  Theorist,gtgtProvocateur
• Forerunner in the field of Media Sociology
  (Marshall McLuhan, Lewis Mumford, Harold Innis)
• Media Ecology Graduate Program at NYU
• Major Books
• Teaching as a Subversive Activity
  (1969)Conscientious Objections (1988)The
  Disappearance of Childhood (1982)Amusing
  Ourselves to Death (1985)Technopoly (1992)
• Central interests/focus
• (1) The interactions between humans and their
  communication technologies(2) Paradigm shifts in
  human thought, culture, and media

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Camille Paglia Background

• Social critic, author, and self-described
  Amazon-feminist.
• University Professor of Humanities and Media
  Studies at the University of the Arts in
  Philadelphia.
• Books
• Sexual Personae Art and Decadence from Nefertiti
  to Emily Dickinson
• Sex, Art and American Culture
• Vamps and Tramps
• Central interests/focus
• Popular culture and feminism
• Against rigid Feminism