Reginald Wyndham <scp>Lloyd‐Davies</scp> , 1934–2023

Reginald

test and the certainty of his dinner. The philosophy of causation held no interest, not even incidental, in his experience. Almost twelve years old, yet the phenomena of the world about him were not sufficiently crossing the threshold of his consciousness to stimulate a why or a wherefore! He lived in the present. He postulated neither a world of the past nor one of the future. Events were not ...

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Henry Wyndham Goodden

Geographical Theories Reginald

Wyndham Lewis’s Theory of Mass Culture

In The Art of Being Ruled Wyndham Lewis argues that modern masses are governed through media manipulation, and specifi cally through “the hypnotism of cinema, wireless, and press” (148). This argument motivates Lewis’s various criticisms of press freedom and mass cultural production, and these criticisms, in turn, are often cited as evidence of an authoritarian bias in his cultural and politica...