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Untimely Interventions
AIDS Writing, Testimonial, and the Rhetoric of Haunting
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
As atrocity has become characteristic of modern history, testimonial writing has become a major twentieth-century genre. Untimely Interventions relates testimonial writing, or witnessing, to the cultural situation of aftermath, exploring ways in which a culture can be haunted by its own history.
Ross...
by Theodore Dalrymple
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
In this incisive and beautifully-written collection of essays retired doctor Theodore Dalrymple writes about subjects as diverse as the legalisation of drugs, the death of Princess Diana and Marxism.
Each of the twenty six essys are a gem and Dalrymple writes with an insight and clarity that...
Not With a Bang But a Whimper
The Politics and Culture of Decline
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2008
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept and incisive in exploring the state of our culture and the ideas that are changing our ways of life....
Why We Hate Us
American Discontent in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2008
Americans are as safe, well fed, securely sheltered, long-lived, free, and healthy as any human beings who have ever lived on the planet. But we are down on America. So why do we hate us? According to Dick Meyer, the following items on this (much abbreviated) list are some of the contributors to our...
by Antony Easthorpe
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2004
In this highly engaging book, Antony Easthope examines 'Englishness' as a form and a series of shared discourses. Discussing the subject of 'nation' - a growing area in literary and cultural studies - Easthope offers polemical arguments written in a lively and accessible style. Englishness and National...
Survival
How a Culture of Preparedness Can Save You and Your Family from Disasters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
It seems as though the frequency of natural disasters occurring around the nation and the world is increasing. Every day, there are new stories about earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and forest fires ravaging some part of the globe. There's also the threat of terrorist attacks at home and abroad....
In The Desert Of Desire
Las Vegas And The Culture Of Spectacle
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2007
Las Vegas, says William Fox, is a pay-as-you-play paradise that succeeds in satisfying our fantasies of wealth and the excesses of pleasure and consumption that go with it. In this context, Fox examines how Las Vegas’s culture of spectacle has obscured the boundaries between high art and entertainment...
by Steven Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
For readers encountering Gramsci for the first time, Steve Jones covers key elements of his thought through detailed discussion and studies the historical context of the theorist's thought, offers examples of putting Gramsci's ideas into practice in the analysis of contemporary culture and evaluates...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1990
"Parfrey has edited a new book of Revelation, a collection which is almost as awesome and terrifying as the original biblical text."--Edwin Pouncey, NME"Apocalypse Culture is compulsory reading for all those concerned with the crisis of our times. An extraordinary collection unlike anything I have ever encountered. These are the terminal documents of the twentieth century."--J.G. Ballard
The Narcissism Epidemic
Living in the Age of Entitlement
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Narcissism -- a very positive and inflated view of the self -- is everywhere. It's what you have if you're a politician and you've strayed from your wife, and it's whyÊfive times as many Americans undergo plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures today than did just ten years ago. It's the value that...
Under Pressure
Rescuing Our Children from the Culture of Hyper-Parenting
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
"Why do grown-ups have to take over everything?" This innocent question from acclaimed journalist and international bestselling author Carl Honoré’s son sparked a two-year investigation into how our culture of speed, efficiency, and success at all costs is damaging both parents and children. When...
The Digital Divide
Arguments for and Against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Netwo rking
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2011
This definitive work on the perils and promise of the social- media revolution collects writings by today's best thinkers and cultural commentators, with an all-new introduction by Bauerlein.
Twitter, Facebook, e-publishing, blogs, distance-learning and other social media raise some of the...
Social Media Abyss
Critical Internet Cultures and the Force of Negation
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2016
Social Media Abyss plunges into the paradoxical condition of the new digital normal versus a lived state of emergency. There is a heightened, post-Snowden awareness; we know we are under surveillance but we click, share, rank and remix with a perverse indifference to technologies of capture and cultures...
Rise of the Videogame Zinesters
How Freaks, Normals, Amateurs, Artists, Dreamers, Drop-outs, Queers, Housewives, and People Like You Are Taking Back an Art Form
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
"Anna Anthropy is a key personality in the ongoing paradigm shift that is slowly changing the way videogames are understood, by creators and players, and by the wider culture."
—Patrick Alexander, Eegra.com
"Equal parts autobiography, ethnography, and how-to manual, this...