The nineties : a book / Chuck Klosterman.
"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music."-- Provided by publisher.
It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In the beginning, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn't know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. Chuck Klosterman showed that there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. In The Nineties, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. In perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like, 'The video for "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany' make complete sense.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735217959
- Physical Description: 370 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2022.
- Copyright: ©2022
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction -- Fighting the battle of who could care less [projections of the distortion] -- The structure of feeling (Swingin' on the flippity-flop) [I see death around the corner] -- Nineteen percent [casual determinism] -- The edge, as viewed from the middle [the slow cancellation of the future and the fast homogenization of the past] -- The movie was about a movie [the power of myth] -- CTRL + ALT + DELETE [alive in the superunknown] -- Three true outcomes [vodka on the chessboard] -- Yesterday's concepts of tomorrow [the importance of being earnest] -- Sauropods [giving the people what they want, except that they don't] -- A two-dimensional fourth dimension [the spin doctors] -- I feel the pain of everyone, then I feel nothing [just try it, and see what happens] -- The end of the decade, the end of decades. |
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