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How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have


How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have (Hardcover)

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About the Author


Franck Frommer worked as a journalist for a dozen years before joining an international company where he worked in the area of communications and the web. The author of a biography of Jean-Patrick Manchette, he lives in Paris. George Holoch has translated more than twenty books, including Eric Hazan's Notes on the Occupation and Alain Deneault's Offshore (both from The New Press). He lives in Hinesburg, Vermont.

Praise for How PowerPoint Makes You Stupid: The Faulty Causality, Sloppy Logic, Decontextualized Data, and Seductive Showmanship That Have…


An original and brilliant study . . . Frommer’s call to resist the “powerpointization” of our souls carries in it the lucidity of a new social critique.
Les Inrockuptibles

To the executive who never dozed off after lunch in an atmosphere subdued by a PowerPoint meeting, who never experienced the desperation of trying to summarize
an entire year’s work in ten slides and fifty bullet points: throw the first projector at
Franck Frommer.
Le Monde

In an in-depth study, Franck Frommer has unearthed a new killer of brain cells.
Télérama

Product Details ISBN-10: 1595587020
ISBN-13: 9781595587022
Published: New Press
Pages: 262
Language: English