Short Black 1 The Australian Disease e-bog
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Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile a...
E-bog
32,69 DKK
Forlag
Black Inc.
Udgivet
30 september 2015
Længde
64 sider
Genrer
1MBF
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781921870491
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which increasingly are used to define our ideas of worth and happiness. It is a full-lipped smile achieved with the aid of collagen made from skin flensed from dead Chinese convicts.The Australian Disease is Richard Flanagan's perceptive, hilarious, searing expos of the conformity that afflicts our public life. From Weary Dunlop to Vassily Grossman, from David Hicks to Craig Thomson, Flanagan takes us on a wildly entertaining and unsettling trip. If we are to find hope, he says, we must take our compass more from ourselves and less from the powerful. Short Blacks are gems of recent Australian writing - brisk reads that quicken the pulse and stimulate the mind