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| Title | : | But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.89 (524 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0399184120 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
An engaging and entertaining workout for the mind led by one of today’s funniest and most thought-provoking writers.” —Library Journal (starred review)“Klosterman is outlining the ideology of a contrarian here and reminding us of the important role that revisionism plays in cultural writing. Replete with lots of nifty, whimsical footnotes, this clever, speculative book challenges our beliefs with jocularity and perspicacity.” —Kirkus (starred review)“Klosterman conducts a series of intriguing thought experiments in this delightful new bookKlosterman’s trademark humor and unique curiosity propel the reader through the book. This book will become a popular book club selection because it makes readers think. He remains one of the most insightful critics of pop culture writing today and this is his most thought-provoking and memorable book yet.” —Publishers Week
Klosterman served as the Ethicist for The New York Times Magazine for three years, appeared as himself in the LCD Soundsystem documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits, and was an original founder of the website Grantland with Bill Simmons. Klosterman is a native of North Dakota and curr
"I read a lot of the reviews and they seem split between disappointment that the Klosterman of old" according to Aladeen. I always look forward to a new Chuck Klosterman book, and this one delivered the goods, but not in a way that I was expecting. I read a lot of the reviews and they seem split between disappointment that the Klosterman of old, the insatiably curious pop culturist, has moved on to bigger and more abstract topics. In my opinion, we've seen t. Interesting premise; weak development steve c. There is little to take away from the author's bold undertaking. Each chapter sets out big questions, but provides little substance. Author seems more concerned with amusing and contradicting himself, as opposed to developing logical and thoughts provoking theories. Disappointing.. Rough around the edges but more than worthwhile Anjan Patnaik Klosterman is engaging in an interesting thought exercise. He's trying to problematics certainty by making arguments about how uncertain things can be. And while he often meanders and sometimes posits questionable premises of his own to further his argument, he's ingeniously protected by the underlying assumption of his project: that what
New York Times bestselling author Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or—weirder still—widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we “overrate” democracy? And perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we’ve reached the end of knowledge?Klosterman visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We’re Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers—George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others—interwoven with
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