Hello, I'm special : how individuality became the new conformity / by Hal Niedzviecki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Niedzviecki, Hal, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture.

Individuality.

Conformity.

Physical Description:

xviii, 259 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First City Lights edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, CA : City Lights Books, 2006.

Summary:

Hal Niedzviecki is one of the wisest, funniest and most acute cultural critics writing today."-Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo"

Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty that they are one of a kind: Individuality is the new conformity.

Niedzviecki's meditations touch on everything from designer religions to webcasts, from reality TV to the endless "everybody is a star" platitudes of global pop culture. The result is a smart, witty, and impassioned argument that shatters the you-can-do-anything pop myth and exposes the paradox of individualism.

Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of "Broken Pencil" magazine and the author of "We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.

Notes:

Originally published: Toronto, Ont. : Penguin Canada, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-252) and index.

ISBN:

0872864537

OCLC:

62172743

Publisher Number:

9780872864535