Format & Anxiety
Subtitle: Paul Goodman Critiques the Media (Autonomedia Book Series)
Contributors: Taylor Stoehr (Editor)
Publisher: Autonomedia
Published: March 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781570270215
Subjects: Literary studies: general; Media Studies; Semiotics & Theory; Sociology; Literary Criticism
Description: Paul Goodman, anarchist critic and author of Growing Up Absurd and Communitas, never wrote a book devoted exclusively to media. Yet he thought the condition of popular arts and news services in America so desperate that by 1964 he was calling it a “constitutional crisis”#x14;by which he meant that our democracy could no longer claim to be based in the public mores or have its justification in the public good, because of the usurpation of every forum by centralized media overseers. Inevitably, then, most of his books raised fundamental questions about the political and cultural effects of the media while addressing his primary concerns#x14;education, psychotherapy, language theory, literary criticism, community planning, and his decentralist program for the New Left. In Format & Anxiety.