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Shit Is Fucked up and Bullshit : History since the End of History by Malcolm Harris (2020, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherMelville House Publishing

ISBN-101612198368

ISBN-139781612198361

eBay Product ID (ePID)3038528088

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Book TitleShit Is Fucked Up and Bullshit : History since the End of History

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial Classes & Economic Disparity, Commentary & Opinion

Publication Year2020

GenrePolitical Science, Social Science

AuthorMalcolm Harris

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Weight9.8 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

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LCCN2019-948181

ReviewsPraise for Malcolm Harris's Kids These Days "The first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it." -- Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Malcolm Harris offers up an exciting, persuasive argument." --Molly Fischer, The Cut "Fiercely smart . . . a must read for anyone who cares about the future of our society." --Kristin Iversen, Nylon "As generational advocates go, we could do worse than Harris." --Jack Dickey, New York Times Book Review, "[Malcolm Harris's] directness and frankness are refreshing--even, occasionally, startling. Taken together, his essays are an indictment, a road map, and a call to action." --The New Republic "This compilation represents the very best of [Harris's] work...perfect for fans of Kurt Andersen's Fantasyland and Jia Tolentino's Trick Mirror " --Booklist "Shit is indeed fucked up and bullshit. But rather than retreat into indiscriminate rage or existential despair, Malcolm Harris takes the near and distant past as an object lesson whose ultimate effect is bracing. The provocations in these essays add up to something we sorely need: a diagnosis of the present that hasn't given up on the future." --Jenny Odell, author of How To Do Nothing "The guy with the sign was right in 2011. Malcolm Harris is even more right in 2020. His book is a vivid, illuminating, and prescient history of the tragic recent political past, the maddening strangeness of the oppressive present, and the disorienting disarray of the near future, which seems to always outpace even our fears for it." --David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

SynopsisAn insightful and exciting collection of new and selected essays tracing how inequality, student debt, and over-work have come to define our culture and our lives., Malcolm Harris is one of America's most exciting young cultural critics, and in this new collection of funny and voice-driven essays he explores how, over the short span of only a few years, the western world's economic situation, political discourse, and future prospects have gotten much worse. This wide-ranging look at how much has happened since the supposed End of History, shows a versatile cultural critic at the height of his powers., From the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality, police violence, and exploitation have come to define our lives In these new and selected pieces, Malcolm Harris, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics, examines everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism--and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way, he explores protest strategies past and present; questions the wrong (and often racist) lessons we've learned from American history; and, most comfortingly, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we're in. Rarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside down that we can finally understand it for what it really is, but Harris's wry and biting essays do just that, and help us laugh at what we see. Our economic situation, political discourse, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said "Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit" to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? The over thirty pieces collected here offer compelling answers to these questions and more., From the writer hailed for giving voice to a generation in Kids These Days comes a bold rejection of a society in which inequality, student debt, and exploitation have come to define our lives Our economic situation, political discourse, and future prospects have gotten much worse since a guy brought a sign that said "Shit is Fucked Up and Bullshit" to the Occupy Wall Street protests. We all knew what he meant then . . . but where are we now? And how has so much happened since the so-called end of history? Malcolm Harris, one of our sharpest and most versatile critics, tackles these questions in over 30 new and selected pieces, examining everything from the lowering of wages to the rise of fascism--and the maddening cultural landscape in between. Along the way, he cops to being the guy who tricked protestors into thinking Radiohead was playing Occupy Wall Street; investigates why the robots that will replace us so often look like sex objects; and, most comfortingly, assures us that Marx saw the necessity of a crisis moment just like the one we're in. Rarely does a writer come along who can turn our world so thoroughly upside-down that we can finally understand it for what it really is, but Harris's wry and biting essays do just that, and help us laugh at what we see.

LC Classification NumberMLCS 2021/42326 (D)