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0:00 Salutations!
0:40 Thank you to Surfshark for sponsoring this video!
3:17 Book clubbing | Literature meets daytime tv...and the modern world | The history of book clubs and their significance | How the way we read books has changed: From 'self-culture' to 'self-identity'
6:25 Inauthentic democratisation | Oprah, Oprah's Book Club and the self-help industry | Democracy as integral to why the self-help and spiritual movement flourishes | Defining 'democracy' (and contrasting it to 'modern democracy')
9:50 The ideal of democracy and the not-so-wonderful democratic world | Experts/Elites vs. laypersons | The characteristics of expertise | The disappearance of public intellectualism (and how self-help has filled the gap) | The "new" (age) expert |
19:36 "I am not as good as you" as undemocratic | The controversies of Oprah's Book Club represent the problems of modern democracy | The future of democracy and experts | Thoughts on publishing | Why Oprah's Book Club can't achieve what it promises
29:26 Thank you so much to my Patrons! Thank you so much for your time of day!
••• some interesting reading •••
[NB. I don't recommend reading I agree with but reading which I find interesting, insightful, and well argued]
⦾ The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge And Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
⦾ newyorker.com/books/page-turner/oprah-winfrey-book-critic (Oprah Winfrey, Book Critic by Jennifer Szalai)
⦾ theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/29/why-we-stopped-trusting-elites-the-new-populism (Why We Stopped Trusting Elites by William Davies)
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#oprah #oprahwinfrey #democracy #booktube #publishing #experts #elitism #books #bookclubs #selfhelp #manifestation #spirituality #mindfulness #liberalism #liberalpolitics #selfidentity
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••• chapters •••
0:00 Salutations!
0:40 Thank you to Surfshark for sponsoring this video!
3:17 Book clubbing | Literature meets daytime tv...and the modern world | The history of book clubs and their significance | How the way we read books has changed: From 'self-culture' to 'self-identity'
6:25 Inauthentic democratisation | Oprah, Oprah's Book Club and the self-help industry | Democracy as integral to why the self-help and spiritual movement flourishes | Defining 'democracy' (and contrasting it to 'modern democracy')
9:50 The ideal of democracy and the not-so-wonderful democratic world | Experts/Elites vs. laypersons | The characteristics of expertise | The disappearance of public intellectualism (and how self-help has filled the gap) | The "new" (age) expert |
19:36 "I am not as good as you" as undemocratic | The controversies of Oprah's Book Club represent the problems of modern democracy | The future of democracy and experts | Thoughts on publishing | Why Oprah's Book Club can't achieve what it promises
29:26 Thank you so much to my Patrons! Thank you so much for your time of day!
••• some interesting reading •••
[NB. I don't recommend reading I agree with but reading which I find interesting, insightful, and well argued]
⦾ The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge And Why It Matters by Tom Nichols
⦾ newyorker.com/books/page-turner/oprah-winfrey-book-critic (Oprah Winfrey, Book Critic by Jennifer Szalai)
⦾ theguardian.com/news/2018/nov/29/why-we-stopped-trusting-elites-the-new-populism (Why We Stopped Trusting Elites by William Davies)
••• social media •••
⦾ Twitter | @kidology_co
⦾ Instagram | kidology.co
⦾ Patreon | Kidology
⦾ Email me! | kidology.co@gmail.com
#oprah #oprahwinfrey #democracy #booktube #publishing #experts #elitism #books #bookclubs #selfhelp #manifestation #spirituality #mindfulness #liberalism #liberalpolitics #selfidentity
