danah boydSep 26, 2023
"The Screens are the Symptom" is a re-review of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" in light of contemporary ideas of book banning, screens, children, and broader epistemic battles. http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2023/09/26/the-screens-are-the-symptom.html
The Screens are the Symptom. | danah boyd | apophenia

Show threadCory DoctorowSep 26, 2023
@zephoria To his dying day, Bradbury insisted that F451 wasn't an anti-censorship novel, but rather an anti-TV novel.
Show threaddanah boydSep 26, 2023
@pluralistic ::laugh:: and yet he positioned them as the medium presented in response to censorship that also kept the people distracted from the war that was about to destroy them while those who survived wanted books to thrive.
Show threaddanah boyd
@pluralistic This is also a good reminder that what authors intend is not always how their books are interpreted. ::wink::
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Show threadCory DoctorowSep 26, 2023
@zephoria Yup yup