“The activists who first took up social media were rather like small children playing with loaded guns… ineptly wielding weapons much more powerful and complicated than they understood, firing with naive conviction in all directions”
@j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
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The iPhone is killing democracy
Podcast with James Marriott on how the collapse of mass literacy is taking us into a new dark age
Onglets assemble! (was that what we were calling ourselves)
I think we want there to be more! @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
Maybe an Ong reading group, because he is quite DENSE and one needs to go over it a few times to get what he’s saying
had a great conversation last night with @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social on what our favourite philosopher of information - Walter Ong - can tell us about a historical moment when the most powerful leader in the English-speaking world is rowing with the Pope
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This is good by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social though not convinced universities can or should teach character
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The late great John Diamond once modestly claimed (paraphrase) he got a job bcs seen to be nice guy who turned up on time. Possible to go long way with tht
This from @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social reflects something I’ve been feeling for some time. My sixth form years were pre-financial crisis. In retrospect, it was the dying embers of an old regime wasn’t it? I have a sense of yearning for a future that never arrived.
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that's very kind to say - thank you
Have plugged this a couple of times already, but I’m guessing now’s a moment when some of you might particularly appreciate distraction from football.
An excellent series (and exactly the kind of thing the BBC should be doing).
thank you very much for listening!
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Afternoon stroll soundtrack: more of this marvellous series @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social @bbcsounds.bsky.social
oh that's kind of you to say. I think political scientists are better attuned than columnists. I think I'm probably just full of hot air!
oh thank you v much!
late to this from James Marriott but it’s one of the best pieces I’ve read this year because going beyond day to day politics/struggles people share in focus groups it captures something bigger we hear - that we’ve passed our prime & it’s all been down hill for years www.thetimes.com/article/d123...
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/.... Evening stroll soundtrack: this really interesting podcast about the power of reading @bbcsounds.bsky.social
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
Today’s ep was recorded in front of a live audience: David talks to author & journalist @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social about Whit Stillman’s Metropolitan, which dissects the lives, loves & reading habits of a group of well-to-do young New Yorkers.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
Things don’t look good. But a wealthy, highly technological society surely has reasons for hope as well as despair. A culture’s dynamism depends on tempering pessimism with a certain brave and even irrational faith in the future.
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By @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social
I wrote this about my increasing conviction that one of the defining facts of modern politics and culture is the trauma of living in the shadow of the peaceful and prosperous early 2000s, which we will look back on as history’s greatest golden age
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“The fate of civilisation hangs in your hands. No pressure.” All three episodes are worth the listen.
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really glad to hear it - thank you!
Me too.
thank you so much for listening!
Absolutely loving @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social and @naomialderman.bsky.social on James’s radio show about reading /1
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I'm so glad! thank you for listening!
thank you very much for listening!
I'm catching up on @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social's excellent Radio 4 series HOW READING MADE US on BBC Sounds.
Picture book creators will take affirmation from cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf's explanation of the importance of reading to children from an early age (from 4:20).
#KidLitUK
Splendid work @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social well played!
I implore you this weekend to listen to 'How Reading Made Us', a 3-part series by @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social for BBC Radio 4 — the story of how reading made us and what might happen if we stop
Part 1: How Reading Made Our Brains — did reading rewire our brains and change the way we live today?
