Cambodia

In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information revolution” lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.

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Cambodia

In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information revolution” lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.

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Cambodia

Cambodia

by Brian Fawcett
Cambodia

Cambodia

by Brian Fawcett

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Overview

In this disturbing collection of investigative fictions, Brian Fawcett asserts that the informational white noise of the Global Village is creating a cultural and intellectual breakdown that will eventually lead to the disappearance of local and individual identity. He argues that under the glitzy surfaces of television and the information revolution” lie the same intentions that ran amok in Khmer Rouge Cambodia: the extermination of memory and imagination.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781772013290
Publisher: Talonbooks, Limited
Publication date: 01/01/1986
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 208
File size: 2 MB
Age Range: 17 - 18 Years

About the Author

Brian Fawcett
Born in 1944 in Prince George, B.C., Brian Fawcett has written poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Talonbooks has published My Career With the Leafs & Other Stories (1992), The Secret Journal of Alexander MacKenzie (1985), Capital Tales (1984) and Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986) by Brian Fawcett.


Born in 1944 in Prince George, B.C., Brian Fawcett has written poetry, fiction and non-fiction. He has been an urban planner and a journalist. Talonbooks has published My Career With the Leafs & Other Stories (1992), The Secret Journal of Alexander MacKenzie (1985), Capital Tales (1984) and Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow (1986) by Brian Fawcett.

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