Watch the Scathing Anti-TED TED Talk
Posted in: UncategorizedOur Clip of the Week is a newly posted TED talk that bashes TED talks. In this nearly 12-minute presentation, Benjamin Bratton, director of the Center for Design and Geopolitics at U.C. San Diego and an associate professor in the Department of Visual Arts there, disparages TED conference culture as “middlebrow megachurch infotainment.” He comes off as a bit of a haughty provocateur (and a nervous one at that, especially at the start of his talk, when he paces the stage like a caged animal), but by the end you might find yourself thinking that he’s fired off some shots that really hit the mark.
On Monday, the same day TED released this video, The Guardian posted Bratton’s talk in text form. Scroll down below the video for a link and a choice excerpt.
Read the text version of this talk, titled “We need to talk about TED,” here. A sample:
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