{"product_id":"culture-creep-notes-on-the-pop-apocalypse-440524","title":"Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"tab-overview\" class=\"tab-pane tab-white active\" role=\"tabpanel\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/em\u003e (“stylish and inspired”—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBook Review\u003c\/em\u003e), a \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003esharp, engrossing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly cataloged, contextualized, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eThe Enumerated Woman\u003c\/span\u003e,” Bolin investigates how digital diet tracking apps have increasingly transformed our relationships to our bodies. Animal Crossing’s soothing retail therapy is analyzed in “Real Time”—a surprisingly powerful portrait of late capitalism. And in the showstopping “\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eFoundering\u003c\/span\u003e,” Bolin dissects our buy-in and complicity with mythmaking around iconic founders, from the hubristic fall of Silicon Valley titans, to Enron, \u003cem\u003eHamilton\u003c\/em\u003e, and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cem\u003eTrick Mirror \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e How to Do Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCulture Creep\u003c\/em\u003e is a swirl of nostalgia and visions of the future, questioning why, in the face of seismic cultural, political, and technological shifts as disruptive as the internet, we cling to the icons and ideals of the past. Written with her signature blend of the personal and sharply analytical, each of these keen-eyed essays ask us to reckon with our own participation in all manner of popular cults of being, and cults of believing. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Royal Gift Land","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42925300777049,"sku":"9780063440524","price":14.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/0206\/3705\/files\/9780063440524.jpg?v=1766070773","url":"https:\/\/royalgiftland.com\/tr\/products\/culture-creep-notes-on-the-pop-apocalypse-440524","provider":"Royal Gift Land","version":"1.0","type":"link"}