Thomas de Zengotita
Thomas de Zengotita (1943 – 2024)[1] was a teacher, author, and contributing editor at Harper's Magazine. He held a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University and taught at the Dalton School for decades, and New York University.[2][3] His book Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It (2005) won the Marshall McLuhan award in 2006 and, in 2010.[4] He co-wrote the narration for a film directed by Adrian Grenier entitled Teenage Paparazzo.[5]
His second book, Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward New Humanism, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.[6] He was last at work on a book called Toward a New Foundation for Human Rights: a Phenomenological Approach.[7]
De Zengotita graduated from Columbia University in 1973 and received his Ph.D. in 1992.[8] At college, he was roommates with the paleontologist, Niles Eldredge, who proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972, in Carman Hall.[8]
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External links
- Interview with Raoul Heertje
- Review of Mediated by Peter Preston for The Guardian
- "Options, But Not Solutions" Interview by Williams Cole, The Brooklyn Rail (May 2005)
- Wesch, Michael. "Michael Wesch - PdF2009 - The Machine is (Changing) Us The Machine is (Changing) Us. Google, Inc. Retrieved July 10, 2011.
- "We Love Screens, Not Glass" The Atlantic (March 2014)
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