The Other SeriousAuthor :
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Published : Tuesday 5 July 2016
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An original collection of incandescent cultural criticism, both experimental and personal, full of pragmatic advice for how to live a considered, joyful existence in our era of screen living and hipster irony, by a Gen-X Princeton professor and contributor to The New York Times
The essays in The Other Serious examine the signature phenomena of our moment: the way our lives contradict themselves, how exaggeration and excess seep into our collective subconscious, why gender is becoming more rather than less complicated, and how we interact with the material things that surround us. It is a book about the delicacy and bluntness of American life, about how pop culture sticks its finger deeply into the ethical dilemmas of our time, and how to negotiate between the old and the new, the high and the low, the global and the local, the sacred and the profane. At the heart of these reflections lies a central question: What should you do when you dont know what to do?
Taken together, these essays comprise a guide for the overhaul of the administrativersity of contemporary American life, a bureaucratic prison where the brain neednt work anymore. These pieces investigate the writers own way of thinkingputting forth new ideas, questioning them, and urging the reader to adopt the same spirit of critical reexamination.
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