Culture creep : notes on the pop apocalypse
by
 
Bolin, Alice, author.

Title
Culture creep : notes on the pop apocalypse

Author
Bolin, Alice, author.

Format
Book

ISBN
9780063440524

Subject Term
Feminism.
 
Popular culture.
 
Information technology -- Social aspects.
 
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century.
 
Féminisme.
 
Culture populaire.
 
Technologie de l'information -- Aspect social.
 
Civilisation -- 21e siècle.
 
Civilization, Modern
 
Feminism
 
Information technology -- Social aspects
 
Popular culture

Summary
"In seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself. In "The Enumerated Woman," Bolin investigates how digital diet tracking apps have increasingly transformed our relationships to our bodies. Animal Crossing's soothing retail therapy is analyzed in "Real Time"--a surprisingly powerful portrait of late capitalism. And in the showstopping "Foundering," Bolin dissects our buy-in and complicity with mythmaking around iconic founders, from the hubristic fall of Silicon Valley titans, to Enron, Hamilton, and the USA. For readers of Trick Mirror and How to Do Nothing, Culture Creep is a swirl of nostalgia and visions of the future, questioning why, in the face of seismic cultural, political, and technological shifts as disruptive as the internet, we cling to the icons and ideals of the past. Written with her signature blend of the personal and sharply analytical, each of these keen-eyed essays ask us to reckon with our own participation in all manner of popular cults of being, and cults of believing" --Front sleeve.


LibraryShelf NumberStatus
Sierra Vista Public Library305.42 BOLAdult Non Fiction