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Robert N. Watson

Cultural Evolution and its Discontents

Cognitive Overload, Parasitic Cultures, and the Humanistic Cure

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People worry that computers, robots, interstellar aliens, or Satan himself - brilliant, stealthy, ruthless creatures - may seize control of our world and destroy what's uniquely valuable about the human race. Cultural Evolution and its Discontents shows that our cultural systems - especially those whose last names are ism - are already doing that, and doing it so adeptly that we seldom even notice. Like other parasites, they've blindly evolved to exploit us for their own survival. Creative arts and humanistic scholarship are our best tools for diagnosis and cure.The assemblages of ideas that have survived, like the assemblages of biological c… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-429-67236-1
  • EAN: 9780429672361
  • Produktnummer: 29455351
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 330 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 3'408 KB

Über den Autor


Robert N. Watson (B.A. summa cum laude from Yale, Ph.D. in English with Highest Honors from Stanford) taught at Harvard before moving to UCLA, where he has been Chair of the Faculty of Letters and Science and Vice-Provost for Educational Innovation, and is now Distinguished Professor of English. He is the author of prize-winning scholarly books, and poems in the New Yorker and many other journals. He has been awarded Guggenheim and NEH fellowships, as well as visiting fellowships at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Christ Church College, Oxford, and prizes for excellence in teaching and public service.

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