Record details

• ISBN: 9780735217959
• ISBN: 0735217955
• Physical Description: 370 pages ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York, NY : Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2022.
• Copyright: ©2022

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A book"--Cover.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-354) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Fighting the battle of who could care less [projections of the distortion] -- The structure of feeling (Swingin' on the flippity-flop) [I see death around the corner] -- Nineteen percent [casual determinism] -- The edge, as viewed from the middle [the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past] -- The movie was about a movie [the power of myth] -- CTRL + ALT + DELETE [alive in the superunknown] -- Three true outcomes [vodka on the chessboard] -- Yesterday's concepts of tomorrow [the importance of being earnest] -- Sauropods [giving the people what they want, except that they don't] -- A two-dimensional fourth dimension [the spin doctors] -- I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing [just try it, and see what happens] -- The end of the decade, the end of decades.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

Nineteen nineties.
Popular culture > United States > History > 20th century.
United States > Civilization > 1970-
United States > Social life and customs > 1971-
United States > Intellectual life > 20th century.

Genre:

Essays.