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  • Chapter 21 - Race

  • from Part IV - Philosophical and Cultural Contexts
  • Edited by Maggie McKinley
  • Book:
    Norman Mailer in Context
    Published online:
    05 August 2021
    Print publication:
    26 August 2021, pp 234-245

  • Summary

    Mailer remained skeptical of many forms of technology; he felt technology to be the enemy of critical thinking, growth, and magic. As this chapter acknowledges, his wariness of various technologies informed works such as Of a Fire on the Moon, in which Mailer eerily predicts some of the very criticisms that have become magnified since the advent of the Internet, fearing that “digital computer was not a machine which would force men to think in new ways about the environment” but was instead “plastic brainpower” that might accelerate “the rush to extermination.”