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Culture Creep - Notes on the Pop Apocalypse (Hardcover)
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Culture Creep - Notes on the Pop Apocalypse (Hardcover)
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List price R695
Loot Price R586
Discovery Miles 5 860
You Save R109 (16%)
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In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the
myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture
of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive
our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and
questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.
In “The Enumerated Woman,” Bolin investigates how digital diet tracking
apps have increasingly transformed our relationships to our bodies.
Animal Crossing’s soothing retail therapy is analyzed in “Real Time”—a
surprisingly powerful portrait of late capitalism. And in the
showstopping “Foundering,” Bolin dissects our buy-in and complicity
with mythmaking around iconic founders, from the hubristic fall of
Silicon Valley titans, to Enron, Hamilton, and the USA.
For readers of Trick Mirror and How to Do Nothing, Culture Creep is a
swirl of nostalgia and visions of the future, questioning why, in the
face of seismic cultural, political, and technological shifts as
disruptive as the internet, we cling to the icons and ideals of the
past. Written with her signature blend of the personal and sharply
analytical, each of these keen-eyed essays ask us to reckon with our
own participation in all manner of popular cults of being, and cults of
believing.
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