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The Close Read: James Poulos on Digital Religion

The Claremont Review of Books Podcast

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The Power of the Image

The power to move minds and shape the way people perceived things flowed very naturally out of the medium of television. If you could visualize something through the power of the image, nation, than that gave you a certain kind of advantage in society. Whoever imagines best is going to be the most powerful or authoritative. You can find reflections on this at the shift from oral to written technology,. For example, ritin plato, the way that it things that it will do to our memory to be able to write down.

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