Giles Slade, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Giles Slade

Author, freelance scholar and culture critic with specific interest in the human and environmental impacts of technology

Date of Birth: 28-Nov-1953

Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Profession: writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Giles Slade

  • Giles Slade is a Canadian freelance writer and social critic, best known as author of Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America. He was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, and educated at Mutchmore Public School.
  • Slade trained as a journalist, and also worked for a time for Harlequin Enterprises, writing adventure novels.
  • He studied at the University of Southern California, defending his doctorate in cultural history.
  • Slade lived and worked in the United States of America for many years.
  • After earning his doctorate he taught at colleges and universities internationally, throughout Asia and the Persian Gulf, for another decade.
  • He returned to Canada with his family and settled in British Columbia (2002). His 2006 book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, documents the history of the planned obsolescence phenomenon in America.
  • It won the International Publisher's Gold Medal (IPPY award) for best Environment/Ecology/Nature book of 2007, and the resulting media interest of some 200+ high profile interviews helped to spread his ideas.
  • The book was released in a paperback edition in October 2007. The documentary film The LightBulb Conspiracy is based in part on Giles Slade’s Made To Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, and includes an interview with the author.
  • It was made by Spanish filmmaker Cosima Dannoritzer and both broadcast on television in Europe, then shown at film festivals (including DOXA in Vancouver, 2012). Slade wrote a column for Huffington Post from 2007 to 2011, and continues to publish critical perspectives and commentary in a variety of popular journals.

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