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The new Dark Ages: the end of reading and the dawn of a post-literate society
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Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by their teachers. Addictive digital entertainment technologies have colonised our free time with infantilising 'slop'. The golden chain of knowledge linking reader to reader through the centuries is breaking for the first time since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire ushered in the Dark Ages. This book is an impassioned attack on the trivial and meaningless culture of the screen and a defence of the written word.
- Genres
- Politics
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The Bodley Head
- ISBN
- 9781847929518
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