Berardi on Sensibility: Mass Murder, Autism, and the Digital Age

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Franco  “Bifo” Berardi in his new book Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide will make a connection like many media theorists that all our electronic gadgets have begun desensitizing our children and that more and more have become a part of a new age of autism. As he will describe the “fact that human beings learn more vocabulary from a machine than from their mothers is undeniably leading to the development of a new kind of sensibility”.1

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