Double-Tracking - Studies in Duplicity (Paperback)

To double-track is to be both: counter-cultural and establishment, rich and poor, a bum with the keys to a country retreat, an exotic addition to the dinner table who still knows how to find their way around the silverware. In the 1970s Tom Wolfe located the apex of doubletracking as the art world, but today, it's a cornerstone of the middle classes, and a full-blown commonplace of contemporary life. At root, it's a state of mind born of an ambivalent relationship to privilege, that, when perfected, allows those with financial resources the economic benefits of leaning right, and the cultural benefits of leaning left. It curls around the vocal chords of private school alumni as they drop their consonants, sprays the can of legally sanctioned graffiti on the side of the pop-up container shopping mall, and tones the cores of sweaty executives attending weekly parkour classes, prancing about the concrete furniture of housing estates they do not live on. Comprising essays, fiction and art criticism, this is a merciless, witty satire of the middle classes - a venturesome, intelligent debut which cuts to the very core of our duplicitous lives.

General

Imprint:	Little Island Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2019
Authors:	Rosanna McLaughlin
Dimensions:	216 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	120
ISBN-13:	978-0-9957052-2-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > General Promotions
LSN:	0-9957052-2-4
Barcode:	9780995705227

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