Mythomania - Couverture souple

Conrad, Peter

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0500293546 ISBN 13 : 9780500293546

Editeur : Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2017

Synopsis

Mythomania, 9780500293546

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Conrad taught English literature at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1973 to 2011. He has written more than twenty books, including How the World Was Won: The Americanization of Everywhere; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; At Home in Australia; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century, all published by Thames & Hudson.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Peter Conrad’s exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from the Queen to the Kardashians, via Banksy, Nando’s, vaping, the vogue of the cronut, the mushroom-like rise of Dubai, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the growth of the Pacific garbage patch...

In Judge Judy, he shows us a matronly Roman goddess dispensing justice with a fly swatter. In the metamorphosis of Caitlyn Jenner from Olympic athlete and paterfamilias into idealized female form, he sees parallels to the deeds of the residents of Mount Olympus themselves. Finally, after surveying advances in biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, he asks whether we might be on the brink of a post-human world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0500293546
• ISBN 13: 9780500293546
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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