Zoran Terzic

Idiocracy

The Culture of the New Idiot
Übersetzung:Turnbull, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

There is a new quality of idiocy today. While the old idiot derived knowledge from isolation, the new idiot refuses all understanding of the world. A figure of systematic incompetence, the new idiot is impacting global culture and politics alike, giving rise to surprising, often absurd competences. Yesterday's "fake news" or "post-truths" can be read today as evidence of an ongoing transformation of self-politics in which the idiotic impulse is redefining our experience of the world. Despite talk of global awareness, the isolated self of the many is all the more effective. It brings about a culture of happy singletons strolling towards a black hole that has become their substitute for society.

Zoran Terzic's wide-ranging essay takes up the figure of the idiot and follows its numerous appearances throughout intellectual history in an examination of the "art of the idiotic" that both reflects and transcends the freneticism of the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: diaphanes
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2023
• Deutsch, Englisch
• Abmessung: 16mm x 136mm x 213mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9783035803679
• Artikelnr.: 60574509

Autorenporträt

Terzic, ZoranZoran Terzic geboren 1969 in Banja Luka, studierte Soziologie, Jazz-Piano und Kommunikationsdesign in Nürnberg undWuppertal sowie Bildende Kunst in New York und widmete sich danach dem Schreiben. Promotion zum Dr. phil. 2006.Er lebt seit 2001 in Berlin.

Inhaltsangabe

7 - 10 (Zoran Terzic)13 - 20 Zero Expression (Zoran Terzic)21 - 32 Tour d'idiot-A History of the Peculiar Person (Zoran Terzic)33 - 50 The Two Realms of the Idiot (Zoran Terzic)51 - 60 The Crudest Pattern (Zoran Terzic)61 - 76 The Idiotic Real (Zoran Terzic)81 - 88 The Zeroed Society (Zoran Terzic)89 - 102 Political Idiocy (Zoran Terzic)103 - 110 The Will to Absurdity (Zoran Terzic)111 - 126 Dialectic of Incompetence (Zoran Terzic)127 - 134 The Frenetic Subject (Zoran Terzic)135 - 150 Wendy's World (Zoran Terzic)151 - 160 Phenomenology of the Many (Zoran Terzic)161 - 171 Idiopractice (Zoran Terzic)172 Acknowledgments173 - 191 Literature

Rezensionen

»Ein Buch über die Gestalt des Idioten in seinen mannigfachen und widersprüchlichen Erscheinungen und Handlungsweisen. Voller Anekdoten und Anregungen, witzig und gescheit.« WDR 3