Mythomania (Paperback) : Tales of Our Times, From Apple to Isis - Tales of Our Times, From Apple to ISIS

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.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Conrad
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.07.2017
• EAN: 9780500293546
• ISBN: 978-0-500-29354-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 200 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 250 g
• Subjects: Fiction; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 21st Century, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Terrorism, armed struggle, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Ethical issues & debates, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Ethical issues and debates, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Activism & Social Justice, Mythology;Ritual;Cultural History