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Present shock : when everything happens now
- Title
- Present shock : when everything happens now / Douglas Rushkoff.
- Author
- Rushkoff, Douglas.
- Publication
- New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2013.
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Details
- Description
- vii, 296 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "An award-winning author explores how the world works in our age of "continuous now" Back in the 1970s, futurism was all the rage. But looking forward is becoming a thing of the past. According to Douglas Rushkoff, "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. Guided by neither history nor long term goals, we navigate a sea of media that blend the past and future into a mash-up of instantaneous experience. Rushkoff shows how this trend is both disorienting and exhilarating. Without linear narrative we get both the humiliations of reality TV and the associative brilliance of The Simpsons. With no time for long term investing, we invent dangerously compressed derivatives yet also revive sustainable local businesses. In politics, presentism drives both the Tea Party and the Occupy movement. In many ways, this was the goal of digital technology--outsourcing our memory was supposed to free us up to focus on the present. But we are in danger of squandering this cognitive surplus on trivia. Rushkoff shows how we can instead ground ourselves in the reality of the present tense. "--
- "In the 1970s futurism was in. But looking forward has become a thing of the past. According to Rushkoff, "presentism" is the new ethos of a society that's always on, in real time, updating live. Rushkoff shows how this trend is both exhilarating and disorienting. This was the goal of technology--outsourcing our memory was supposed to free us up to focus on the present. But we are in danger of squandering this cognitive surplus on trivia. Rushkoff shows how we can instead ground ourselves in the reality of the present tense"--
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
- Contents
- Narrative collapse -- Digiphrenia : breaking up is hard to do -- Overwinding : the short forever -- Fractalnoia : finding patterns in the feedback -- Apocalypto.
- Call Number
- JFD 14-2914
- ISBN
- 9781591844761 (hardback)
- 1591844762 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2012039915
- OCLC
- 796756185
- Author
- Rushkoff, Douglas.
- Title
- Present shock : when everything happens now / Douglas Rushkoff.
- Publisher
- New York, New York, U.S.A. : Current, 2013.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-281) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 14-2914