Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time by Jay Griffiths (Paperback, 2000)

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Title: Pip Pip. An infectiously enthusiastic and original piece of cultural analysis on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. Author: Jay Griffiths. Format: Paperback.

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'A wonderful piece of polemic against everything that's wrong with the way we deal with time today.' Independent WINNER OF THE BARNES AND NOBLE 'DISCOVER AWARD FOR NON-FICTION' 2003 An infectiously enthusiastic and original piece of cultural analysis on the one subject that has ousted sex and money from the top of the obsessions league. In thrillingly ebullient style and with every paragraph fizzing over with smart ideas smartly expressed, livewire polemicist Jay Griffiths takes Time in her teeth and champs and chews at it until it's a far more palatable item - something to nourish us, not just to tempt and worry us. Her fascinating exploration of the passage of time includes (among many other things): our obsession with speed, with overtaking; motorways and their link to fascism; war; Mercury and the mythology of time and speed; History and the heritage industry; the 'meanness' of Greenwich Mean Time; the fast language we now have to go with fast food; Aboriginal Dreamtime; the difference between festivals and pageants; May Day; New Year; fin de siecles; the Millennium Dome; the time-consuming nature of housework; sex as anti-authority and anti-linear time; male concepts of time set against female; plastic surgery and the denial of aging; the evolution of the global calendar and clock; clock time versus wild time. At once playful, political and passionate, she discusses Time's arrow/domain/passage/gender/ linearity/circularity/speed/sloth/etc with exceptional elan. It all makes for a hugely entertaining, exciting and even terrifying book which marks the beginning of a significant writing career.

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PublisherHarpercollins Publishers
ISBN-139780006551775
eBay Product ID (ePID)94644046

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Number of Pages334 Pages
Publication NamePip Pip: a Sideways Look at Time
LanguageEnglish
SubjectScience, History
Publication Year2000
TypeTextbook
AuthorJay Griffiths
FormatPaperback

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Item Height198 mm
Item Weight226 g
Item Width129 mm

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Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
Title_AuthorJay Griffiths

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