{"product_id":"everything-all-the-time-everywhere-isbn-9781788738224","title":"Everything, All the Time, Everywhere","description":"\u003cb\u003eA radical new history of a dangerous idea\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePost-Modernity is the creative destruction that has shattered our present times into fragments. It dynamited modernism which had dominated the western world for most of the 20th century. Post-modernism stood  for everything modernism rejected: fun, exuberance, irresponsibility. But beneath its glitzy surface, post-modernism had a dirty secret: it was the fig leaf for a rapacious new kind of capitalism. It was also the forcing ground of the 'post truth', by means of which western values got turned upside down.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the  world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHe tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes David Bowie, the Ipod, Frederic Jameson, the demolition of  Pruit-Igoe, Madonna, Post-Fordism, Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit', Deleuze and Guattari, the Nixon Shock, The Bowery series,  Judith Butler, Las Vegas, Margaret Thatcher, Grand Master Flash, I Love Dick, the RAND Corporation, the Sex Pistols, Princess Diana, the Musee D'Orsay, Grand Theft Auto, Perry Anderson, Netflix, 9\/11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?\"Erudite and entertaining ... \u003ci\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a detailed and convincing horror story of the amalgamation of the two most dominant intellectual paradigms of the past half century.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ryne Clos, \u003ci\u003eSpectrum Culture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jeffries is a rarity: a journalist with a serious interest in cultural theory ... who writes about it in a way that is both scholarly and welcoming to non-theorists ... entertaining and astute\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Joe Moran, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In holding a mirror to a familiar world, Everything looks to reveal hidden complexities ... eminently readable, without eliding the difficulties that are so key to its intrigue\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Daniel Baksi, \u003ci\u003eThe Arts Desk\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Splendidly readable ... Jeffries packs a remarkable knowledge of postmodern culture into these pages\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Terry Eagleton, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Intriguing\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—William Davies, \u003ci\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e finds Stuart Jeffries examining simply and engagingly how a loss of values and critical thought has led to our ‘post-truth’, irrational world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eChoice Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively, sparky book\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Rosen, \u003ci\u003eBBC Front Row\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not only instructive; [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] is a pleasurable read ... brilliant and entertaining\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Lisa Downing, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Engaging and richly detailed\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Christopher McMichael, \u003ci\u003eNew Frame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Astute\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—D.L. Dusenbury, \u003ci\u003eSpectator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is a book replete with philosophical, social, and political references and its range of material is truly impressive.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Sean Sheehan, \u003ci\u003epopmatters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pertinent ... on class, and capital, [Jeffries] is good.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Scotsman, \u003ci\u003eStuart Kelly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stuart Jeffries’ animated and witty approach in \u003ci\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e is an exhilarating and even intoxicating look at the shambles the relationship between postmodernism and neoliberal capitalism has created.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Ron Jacobs, \u003ci\u003eCounterpunch\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A lively, engaged, critical tour of a wide range of postmodern phenomena ... [\u003ci\u003eEverything, All the Time, Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e] gives us plenty to ponder, plenty to debate.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—David McKay, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophy Now\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart Jeffries\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist and author. He was for many years on the staff of the Guardian, working as subeditor, TV critic, Friday Review editor and Paris correspondent. He now works as a freelance writer, mostly for the Guardian, Spectator, Financial Times and the London Review of Books. He has written two books \u003ci\u003eMrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGrand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303669321957,"sku":"NP9781788738224","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781788738224.jpg?v=1767726466","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/everything-all-the-time-everywhere-isbn-9781788738224","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}