A Short History of Stupid
Subtitle: The Decline of Reason and Why Public Debate Makes Us Want to Scream
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 03 Mar 2016
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9781760110543
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Humour; Cultural studies; Social pressure; Common sense; Mass media, political aspects; Mass media, moral and ethical aspects; Popular culture, australia; Popular culture, united states; Australia, intellectual life
Table of contents: label: Introduction - We don't know what we are doing
title: 1; label: 1.
title: 'I'm worth it': L'Oreal and the fade-resistant rise of liberal individualism
pagenum: 9; title: HR; label: 2.
title: Suffer the little children: Enlightenment and denialism
pagenum: 26; title: BK; label: 3.
title: Look who's talking: Why uttering our 'identity' makes us Stupid babies
pagenum: 55; title: HR; label: 4.
title: 'Nudge them all - God will know his own': Soft, hard and extreme paternalism
pagenum: 69; title: BK; label: 5.
title: The inflexible Safe Space: The injurious yoga class of the mind
pagenum: 100; title: HR; label: 6.
title: National stupidity: How the War on Terror is killing and impoverishing us
pagenum: 119; title: BK; title: Entr'acte - From Dallas with Love to Moonfaker: The lost films of Stanley Kubrik
pagenum: 144; title: BK; label: 7.
title: Reason and unreason: How we've all gone Stupid-mad in an age of absolute sanity
pagenum: 161; title: HR; label: 8.
title: Political arithmetic, or, Slack hacks lack facts when flacks stack the stats
pagenum: 183; title: BK; label: 9.
title: Postmodern nausea: Derrida, vomit and the rise of relativity
pagenum: 211; title: HR; label: 10.
title: Hyperreality, authenticity and the fucking up of public debate
pagenum: 234; title: BK; label: 11.
title: Conspicuous compassion: On consuming Kony
pagenum: 266; title: HR; label: Conclusion - Final words: Towards a taxonomy of Stupid, and other wankery
title: 281; label: Appendix - Top ten Stupids
title: 299; label: Recommended reading
title: 320; label: Acknowledgements
title: 330