Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class by Owen Jones
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In modern Britain, the working class has become an object of fear and ridicule. From Little Britain's Vicky Pollard to the demonization of Jade Goody, media and politicians alike dismiss as feckless, criminalized and ignorant a vast, underprivileged swathe of society whose members have become stereotype ...Show more
In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and its Ironies by David Rieff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The conventional wisdom about historical memory is summed up in George Santayana's celebrated phrase, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Today, the consensus that it is moral to remember, immoral to forget, is nearly absolute. And yet is this right? David Rieff, an independ ...Show more
Putin Country by Anne Garrels
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
More than twenty years ago, the longtime NPR correspondent Anne Garrels began to visit the region of Chelyabinsk, an aging military-industrial center a thousand miles east of Moscow that is home to the Russian nuclear program. Her goal was to chart the social and political aftershocks of the USSR's coll ...Show more
FORTY-NINE STEPS by CALASSO ROBERTO SHEPLEY JOHN
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In books lauded as brilliant, exhilarating and profound, Roberto Calasso has revealed the unexpected intersections of ancient and modern through topics ranging from Greek and Indian mythology to what a legendary African kingdom can tell us about the French Revolution. In this first translation of his mo ...Show more
Against Remembrance by David Rieff
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Gallipoli, and at its worst, how memory of past horrors inflame deep-seated ethnic hat ...Show more
The Devil: A New Biography by Philip C. Almond
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes. He also has as many names as he has guises. Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub (in Christian thought), Ha-Satan or the Adversary (in Jewish scripture) and Iblis or Shaitan (in Islamic tradition) has throughout the ages and across civilizations been ...Show more
Play All - A Bingewatcher's Notebook by Clive James
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Reading Level: near fine
A world-renowned media and cultural critic offers an insightful analysis of serial TV drama and the modern art of the small screen Television and TV viewing are not what they once were--and that's a good thing, according to award-winning author and critic Clive James. Since serving as television columni ...Show more
Big Data: Does Size Matter? by Timandra Harkness
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Big data knows where you've been and who your friends are. It knows what you like and what makes you angry. It can predict what you'll buy, where you'll be the victim of crime and when you'll have a heart attack. Big data knows you better than you know yourself, or so it claims. But how well do you know ...Show more
End Game: Tipping Point for Planet Earth? by Professor Anthony Barnosky; Elizabeth A. Hadly
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
overconsumption / population growth / dwindling resources / climate change / disease / contamination / storms / thirst / war ... will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? World-renowned scientists Tony Barnosky and Liz Hadly ask: what happens when vast popula ...Show more
This Way Madness Lies: The Three Ages of the Asylum by Mike Jay
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Is mental illness - or madness - at root an illness of the body, a disease of the mind, or a sickness of the soul? Should those who suffer from it be secluded from society or integrated more fully into it? This Way Madness Lies explores the meaning of mental illness through the successive incarnations o ...Show more
Bit Rot by Douglas Coupland
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ...you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain ...Show more
What a Time to be Alive: That and Other Lies in the 2016 Campaign by Mark Di Stefano
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics
What a Time to be Alive: That and other lies in the 2016 campaign is the ugly and un-sanitised diary behind the curtain of the double dissolution election campaign. A poll fought between two wildly ambitious men who want to win their first election, whatever it takes. Mark Di Stefano finds out what is h ...Show more