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But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst others: David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism * Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * The Bowery series * Judith Butler * Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * I Love Dick * the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols * Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay * Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9/11 We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?
But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today. He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst others: David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism * Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * The Bowery series * Judith Butler * Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * I Love Dick * the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols * Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay * Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9/11 We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?
A radical new history of a dangerous idea
Stuart Jeffries is a journalist and author. He was for many years on the staff of the Guardian, working as subeditor, TV critic, Friday Review editor and Paris correspondent. He now works as a freelance writer, mostly for the Guardian, Spectator, Financial Times and the London Review of Books. He has written two books Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly (2000) and Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (2016).
Erudite and entertaining ... Everything, All the Time, Everywhere
is a detailed and convincing horror story of the amalgamation of
the two most dominant intellectual paradigms of the past half
century.
*Spectrum Culture*
Jeffries is a rarity: a journalist with a serious interest in
cultural theory ... who writes about it in a way that is both
scholarly and welcoming to non-theorists ... entertaining and
astute
*Times Literary Supplement*
In holding a mirror to a familiar world, Everything looks to reveal
hidden complexities ... eminently readable, without eliding the
difficulties that are so key to its intrigue
*The Arts Desk*
Splendidly readable ... Jeffries packs a remarkable knowledge of
postmodern culture into these pages
*Guardian*
Intriguing
*New Statesman*
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere finds Stuart Jeffries
examining simply and engagingly how a loss of values and critical
thought has led to our 'post-truth', irrational world.
*Choice Magazine*
A lively, sparky book
*BBC Front Row*
Not only instructive; [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] is a
pleasurable read ... brilliant and entertaining
*Financial Times*
Engaging and richly detailed
*New Frame*
Astute
*Spectator*
Everything, All the Time, Everywhere is a book replete with
philosophical, social, and political references and its range of
material is truly impressive.
*popmatters*
Pertinent ... on class, and capital, [Jeffries] is good.
*Stuart Kelly*
Stuart Jeffries' animated and witty approach in Everything, All the
Time, Everywhere is an exhilarating and even intoxicating look at
the shambles the relationship between postmodernism and neoliberal
capitalism has created.
*Counterpunch*
A lively, engaged, critical tour of a wide range of postmodern
phenomena ... [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] gives us
plenty to ponder, plenty to debate.
*Philosophy Now*
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