Against Everything : Essays / Mark Greif.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greif, Mark, 1975- author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--21st century.

American literature.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

xii, 304 pages ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2016]

Summary:

"These essays address such key topics in the cultural, political, and intellectual life of our time as the tyranny of exercise, the tyranny of nutrition and food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of Radiohead, the rise and fall of the hipster, the impact of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the crisis of policing. Four of the selections address, directly and unironically, the meaning of life what might be the right philosophical stance to adopt toward one's self and the world." -- Amazon.com.

Contents:

Preface

Against exercise

Afternoon of the sex children

On food

Octomom and the market in babies

The concept of experience (the meaning of life, part I)

Radiohead, or the philosophy of pop

Punk: the right kind of pain

Learning to rap

Gut-level legislation, or redistribution (the meaning of life, part II)

The reality of reality television

Wetube

What was the hipster?

Anaesthetic ideology (the meaning of life, part III)

Mogadishu, Baghdad, Troy, or heroes without war

Seeing through police

Thoreau trailer park (the meaning of life, part IV).

Other Format:

Online version: Greif, Mark, 1975- author. Against everything

ISBN:

9781101871157

1101871156

OCLC:

932385677

Publisher Number:

40026357077