Mythomania
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Despite our culture’s proclaimed respect for scientific reason, we
live in a society that is no less bedazzled-and bedevilled-by myth
than those of our remote ancestors. Roland Barthes first examined
the mythical resonances of consumer products in the 1950s. Far from
being demystified, consumerism has since morphed into a universal
religion, its compulsory ritual of shopping essential to our
economic survival. Myth has also invaded the political realm, as
terrorists brandish black flags and recite theological mantras as
they martyr themselves. 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.
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Conrad Peter ,
Thames & Hudson
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Conrad Peter,
Thames & Hudson
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Slovart
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