{"product_id":"humid-all-too-humid-dominic-pettman-9780692650141","title":"Humid, All Too Humid: Overheated Observations","description":"In Humid, All Too Humid, social commentator Dominic Pettman curates the overheated thoughts of his own feverish mind, in response to a world struggling with unprecedented levels of cultural climate change.\u003cp\u003eThe book takes the form of aphorism, witticism, maxim, axiom, dictum, quip, jape, adage, proverb, pun, precept, reflection, suggestion, observation, paraphrase, bon mot, vagary, specificky, put-on, put-off, mummery, miscellany, aside, in-front, behind, knock-knock joke, one-liner, tweet, re-tweet, truism, and not-so-truism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKnown for his scholarly work on love, sex, and the (post)human condition, Pettman now assembles this collection of humoristic micro-meditations on everything from the meaning of life to the \"yoghurt of human unkindness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHumid, All Too Humid reads as if Oscar Wilde had first written Minima Moralia, after binge-watching too many episodes of The Simpsons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dominic Pettman is the Steven Wright of cultural theory.\" (Eugene Thacker)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominic Pettman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0692650148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780692650141\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Punctum Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.41lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.39d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dominic Pettman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48443067367679,"sku":"9780692650141","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_70335fbd-ee47-4c1e-af93-d362048bc411.jpg?v=1777201630","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/humid-all-too-humid-dominic-pettman-9780692650141","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}