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The Nineties: A Book
It’s among the few remnants of the pre-Internet monoculture;
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
the functional disparity between that bygone era and the one we now inhabit is vast and quirky—I
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
During the last half of the nineties, the Internet still felt highly segregated—to a mainstream consumer, it was hard to see the ideological relationship between limitless porn and fantasy football and Napster and the eradication of travel agents. What unified that diaspora was the rise of blogging, spawning what’s now recognized as the “voice” of
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Our simultaneous embrace of macro- and micro-crazes—and, more specifically, the effect they have on us—is what author and critic Chuck Klosterman describes as “the feeling” of an era.
Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
the Internet slowly reinvented the way people thought about everything, including those things that have no relationship to the Internet whatsoever.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
The thirty-plus years this book was ignored no longer exist. Technologically, 1976 and 2013 exist in the same moment.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
“Decades are about cultural perception,” he writes. “Despite an overabundance of historical information, the collective memory of the decade tends to be simplified and minimized, dictated more by the texture of the time than by anything that transpired. And yet: The texture is what mattered.”
Jason Parham Culture • The Age of Everything Culture Is Here
