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Born to Be Posthumous

The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

by Mark Dery ...

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over ... Read more

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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over
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Escape Velocity

Cyberculture at the End of the Century

by Mark Dery ...

"Without a doubt the best guide I have read to the new computer culture . . . witty and provocative . . . sane and thoughtful" (J. G. Ballard)."A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today's computer savvy avant-garde", Escape Velocity explores the dawn of the Information Age, and the high-tech subcultures that celebrated, critiqued, and gave birth to our wired world and a ... Read more

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"Without a doubt the best guide I have read to the new computer culture . . . witty and provocative . . . sane and thoughtful" (J. G. Ballard)."A lively compendium of dispatches from the far reaches of today's computer savvy avant-garde", Escape Velocity explores the dawn of the Information Age, and the high-tech subcultures that celebrated, critiqued, and gave birth to our wired world and a
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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium

American Culture on the Brink

by Mark Dery ...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that "marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit" ( The New York Times Book Review).From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to ... Read more

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A wide-ranging collection of essays on millennial American culture that "marshals a vast pop vocabulary with easy wit" ( The New York Times Book Review).From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to
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England My England: Anglophilia Explained

by Mark Dery ...

Downton Abbey has brought out the Anglophile in American fans of the hit TV series. But Anglophilia has a long history in America. Why are some native-born residents of our Shining City Upon a Hill, where All Men Are Created Equal, seduced by the fluting tones of manor-born privilege? At last, Anglophilia explained---in American, thank you. ... Read more

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Downton Abbey has brought out the Anglophile in American fans of the hit TV series. But Anglophilia has a long history in America. Why are some native-born residents of our Shining City Upon a Hill, where All Men Are Created Equal, seduced by the fluting tones of manor-born privilege? At last, Anglophilia explained---in American, thank you.
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Born to Be Posthumous

The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey

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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over ... Read more

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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth.But who was this man, who lived with over
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A Multiple Community

Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

by João Laia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Arseny Zhilyaev, Catalina Lozano, Daniel Quiles, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Donna Haraway, Simone Bertuzzi, Simone Trabucchi, Leela Gandhi0, Mark Dery1, Natasha Ginwala2, Sophia Al-Maria3, Valen Klimašauskas4, Rodrigo Hernández5, Vivian Ziherl6, Zadie Xa7 ...

Translated by Anthony Sean Cleaver8 ...

The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which, while not new, present renewed interest and originality for their reduced visibility. Such forms of ... Read more

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The proposal of this second volume of Leituras is to address the debate on the global South from other models of constructing reality and to speculate on the potential impact of alternative forms of organization on current times. To this end, it compiles a series of non-Western cosmologies which, while not new, present renewed interest and originality for their reduced visibility. Such forms of
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Culture Jamming

Activism and the Art of Cultural Resistance

Edited by Marilyn DeLaure, Moritz Fink ...

A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others.Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to ... Read more

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A collaboration of political activism and participatory culture seeking to upend consumer capitalism, including interviews with The Yes Men, The Guerrilla Girls, among others.Coined in the 1980s, “culture jamming” refers to an array of tactics deployed by activists to critique, subvert, and otherwise “jam” the workings of consumer culture. Ranging from media hoaxes and advertising parodies to
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Flame Wars

The Discourse of Cyberculture

Edited by Mark Dery ...

"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it—transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent ... Read more

$28.79 USD

"Flame Wars," the verbal firefights that take place between disembodied combatants on electronic bulletin boards, remind us that our interaction with the world is increasingly mediated by computers. Bit by digital bit we are being "Borged," as devotees of Star Trek: The Next Generation would have it—transformed into cyborgian hybrids of technology and biology through our ever more frequent
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