Thomas de zengotita biography of rory

Thomas de Zengotita is a contributing editor at Harper'smagazine. His work has been acclaimed for turning irony—the postmodern posture of apathy and disengagement—into a powerful call for us to engage more deeply with the human dilemmas of our globalizing yet fragmented world. He teaches at The Dalton School and at the Draper Graduate Program at New York University.

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He holds a B.A., M.A, and Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University.

His essays include “The Romance of Empire” in Harper's, July ; “Common Ground” in Harper's, December ; a profile of Hell's Angel Sonny Barger in Shout, April ; “The Numbing of the American Mind” in Harper's, April ; “World World; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blob” in Harper's, July ; “Geometry” in John Brockman (ed.), The Greatest Inventions of the Past 2, Years, (Simon and Schuster, ); “The Gunfire Dialogues” in Harper's, July ; “Irony, Celebrity and You” in The Nation, December 2, ; and “On Wittgenstein's 'Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough'” in Cultural Anthropology (April ).

Zengotita's most recent book is Mediated: The Hidden Effects of Media on People, Places, and Things (Bloomsbury, ). His fiction includes “Hannah's Birthday,” which is forthcoming in Fiction, and “The Other Side,” which appeared in Logos, Summer

selected books

Mediated: The Hidden Effects of Media on People, Places, and Things
(Bloomsbury, )
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selected articles

“The Romance of Empire and the Politics of Self-love”
Harper's, July

“Common Ground: Finding Our Way Back to the Enlightenment”
Harper's, January
“The Numbing of the American Mind: Culture as Anesthetic”
Harper's, April
“World World: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blob”
Harper's, July
“The Gunfire Dialogues: How Media Influences Children Prone to Violence”
Harper's, July
“On Wittgenstein's Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough”
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