
The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society, with James Marriott
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Episode: The Dawn of a Post-Literate Society, with James Marriott
Pub date: 2026-08-14
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Books are dying. Across the world the number of people reading is in free fall. Literacy is declining or stagnating in most developed countries. At universities, students are unable to read the books assigned to them by their teachers. Addictive digital entertainment technologies have colonised our free time with infantilising ‘slop’. The golden chain of…
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