Thomas de Zengotita (born 1944) is an author and contributing editor at ''

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''. He holds a

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anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

from

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and teaches at the

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and

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. His book ''Mediated: How the Media Shapes Your World and the Way You Live in It'' (2005) won the

Marshall McLuhan Herbert Marshall McLuhan (July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980) was a Canadian philosopher whose work is among the cornerstones of the study of media theory. He studied at the University of Manitoba and the University of Cambridge. He began his ...

award in 2006 and, in 2010. He co-wrote the narration for a film directed by

Adrian Grenier Adrian Sean Grenier (born July 10, 1976) is an American actor, producer, director and musician. He is best known for his portrayal of Vincent Chase in the television series ''Entourage (American TV series), Entourage'' (2004–2011). He has appe ...

entitled ''

Teenage Paparazzo ''Teenage Paparazzo'' is a 2010 documentary film about the life and times of a 14-year-old Paparazzi photographer named Austin Visschedyk. It was directed by actor Adrian Grenier and produced by Bert Marcus, Adrian Grenier and Matthew Cooke. Film ...

''. His most recent book,
Postmodern Theory and Progressive Politics: Toward New Humanism
' was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018. He is presently at work on a book called ''Toward a New Foundation for Human Rights: a Phenomenological Approach'' which is due out in 2020 fro
Stanford University Press.
De Zengotita graduated from Columbia University in 1973 and received his Ph.D. in 1992. At college, he was roommates with the paleontologist,

Niles Eldredge Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972. Education Eldredge began his undergraduate studies in Latin at Columb ...

, who proposed the theory of

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in 1972, in

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References

External links

Interview with Raoul Heertje

Review of ''Mediated'' by Peter Preston for ''The Guardian''

"Options, But Not Solutions"
Interview by Williams Cole, ''

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'' (May 2005) *Wesch, Michael
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