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The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium by DERY (Paperback, 1999)

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From the far left to the far right, on talk radio and the op-ed page, more and more Americans believe that the social fabric is unraveling. Celebrity worship and media frenzy, suicidal cultists and heavily armed secessionists: modern life seems to have become a pyrotechnic insanitarium, Mark Dory says, borrowing a turn-of-the-century name for Coney Island. Dory elucidates thc meaning to our madness, deconstructing American culture from mainstream forces like Disney and Nike to fringe phemena like thc Unabomber and alien invaders. Our millennial angst, he argues, is a product of a pervasive cultural anxiety -- a combination of thc social and ecomic upheaval wrought by global capitalism and thc paraia fanned by media sensationalism. The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium is a theme-park ride through thc extremes of American culture of which The Atlantic Monthly has written, Mark Dery confirms once again what writers and thinkers as disparate as Nathanael West, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Sigmund Freud, and Oliver Sacks have already shown us: thc best place to explore the human condition is at its outer margins, its pathological extremes.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Avalon Travel Publishing
ISBN-10
0802136702
ISBN-13
9780802136701
eBay Product ID (ePID)
107122453

Product Key Features

Author
Dery
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Social Studies: General

Additional Product Features

Place of Publication
Chicago
Date of Publication
15/12/1999
Imprint
Avalon Travel Publishing
Country of Publication
United States

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