Mark Greif

Against Everything (eBook, ePUB)

On Dishonest Times

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Against Everything is a thought-provoking study and essential guide to the vicissitudes of everyday life under twenty-first-century capitalism.

Mark Greif is one of the most exciting writers of his generation. In this invigorating collection, he challenges us to rethink the ordinary world and take life seriously - in short, to stay honest in dishonest times. In a series of coruscating set pieces he asks why we put ourselves through the pains of exercise, what our concerns about diet or sex does for our fundamental worth, what political identity the hipster might possess, and what happens to us when we listen to Radiohead or hip-hop.

Counter-intuitive and revelatory in his insights, Greif revels in the contradictions arising between our desires and the excuses we make to console ourselves. His work demands we have the courage to be 'against everything', to change our vantage on everyday life, find it wanting and demand something better.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784785949
• Artikelnr.: 46755492

Autorenporträt

Mark Greif is a founder and Editor of the journal n+1. He lives and works in New York, where he is Associate Professor of Literary Studies at the New School. He is the highly acclaimed author of The Age of the Crisis of Man, and his criticism and journalism have appeared in publications including the London Review of Books, Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, and New Statesman.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
I
Against Exercise
Afternoon of the Sex Children
On Food
Octomom and the Market in Babies
II
The Concept of Experience (The Meaning of Life, Part I)
III
Radiohead, or the Philosophy of Pop
Punk: The Right Kind of Pain
Learning to Rap
IV
Gut-Level Legislation, or, Redistribution (The Meaning of Life, Part II)
V
The Reality of Reality Television
WeTube
What Was the Hipster?
VI
Anaesthetic Ideology (The Meaning of Life, Part III)
VII
Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, or Heroes Without War
Seeing Through Police
VIII
Thoreau Trailer Park (The Meaning of Life, Part IV)
Acknowledgments