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The Great Brain Suck: And Other American Epiphanies (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780226314662)
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xMore and more information is pumped into our media-saturated world every day, yet Americans seem to know less and less. In a society where who you are is defined by what you buy, and where we prefer to experience reality by watching it on TV, Eugene Halton argues something has clearly gone wrong.
Luckily Halton, with scalpel-sharp wit in one hand and the balm of wisdom in the other, is here to operate on the declining body politic. His initial diagnosis is bleak: fast food and too much time spent sitting, whether in our cars or on our couches, are ruining our bodies, while our minds are weakened by the proliferation of electronic devices--TVs, computers, cell phones, iPods, video games--and their alienating effects. If we are losing the battle between autonomy and automation, he asks, how can our culture regain self-sufficiency? Halton finds the answer in the inspiring visions--deeply rooted in American culture--of an organic and more spontaneous life at the heart of the work of master craftsman Wharton Esherick, legendary blues singer Muddy Waters, urban critic Lewis Mumford, and artist Maya Lin, among others.
A scathing and original jeremiad against modern materialism, The Great Brain Suck is also a series of epiphanies of a simpler but more profound life.
Author: Eugene Halton
ISBN-10: 0226314669
ISBN-13: 9780226314662
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
Luckily Halton, with scalpel-sharp wit in one hand and the balm of wisdom in the other, is here to operate on the declining body politic. His initial diagnosis is bleak: fast food and too much time spent sitting, whether in our cars or on our couches, are ruining our bodies, while our minds are weakened by the proliferation of electronic devices--TVs, computers, cell phones, iPods, video games--and their alienating effects. If we are losing the battle between autonomy and automation, he asks, how can our culture regain self-sufficiency? Halton finds the answer in the inspiring visions--deeply rooted in American culture--of an organic and more spontaneous life at the heart of the work of master craftsman Wharton Esherick, legendary blues singer Muddy Waters, urban critic Lewis Mumford, and artist Maya Lin, among others.
A scathing and original jeremiad against modern materialism, The Great Brain Suck is also a series of epiphanies of a simpler but more profound life.
Author: Eugene Halton
ISBN-10: 0226314669
ISBN-13: 9780226314662
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2008
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.90w x 0.70d
By Eugene Halton
xEugene Halton is professor of sociology at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Meaning and Modernity: Social Theory in the Pragmatic Attitude and Bereft of Reason: On the Decline of Social Thought and Prospects for Its Renewal, both published by the University of Chicago Press.
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