Superhip Prettypunk
Publisher
:
Calmann-Lévy
Parution date
:
2002
EAN
:
9782702133293
Description
Once again, France delivers an explosive and controversial new book that is sure to spark interest and debate for years to come. Brash 20-something author Toledo recently burst onto Paris’ intellectual scene with his brilliantly incisive manifesto, examining present-day counterculture from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the present. He asks what it is, exactly, his generation is protesting against and contemplates how revolt against western capitalistic values has been neutralized since the time of Francis Fukuyama’s landmark 1989 article “The End of History”. Providing historical context from The Surrealists to Jean-Luc Godard; Guy Debord to Johnny Rotten, Gilles Deleuze to Kurt Cobain, he reveals how the diffusion of political power as well as media co-option have robbed all forms of cultural dissent of their critical potential, leaving behind a new generation of rebels unsure of their cause. Rather than a reaction to economic iniquity, the author explains that the dissatisfaction of his generation is due to a world become more and more homogenous as a result of unification. To today’s youth, only one political, social and cultural system appears to exist in this new era of globalization, resulting in an overwhelming need to escape a growing sense of claustrophobia.
In the tradition of Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle, Archimondain Jolipunk has caught the public and critics by a storm since its release only two months ago. Sales have continued to grow as does the reputation of this original, thought-provoking and timely book.
Author
Camille Toledo : Camille de Toledo was born in 1976. He studied history in London, photography and cinema in New York, false transgression in Paris, false exoticism in Tangiers, and beautiful nostalgia in Buenos Aires. He confesses that he tries to direct the world in order to better escape it and has a natural penchant for dissidence. This is his first book.
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