Karaoke Culture

by Ugresic, Dubravka; Williams, David; Elias-Bursac, Ellen (CON); Hawkesworth, Celia (CON)

• ISBN13: 9781934824573
• ISBN10: 1934824577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-10-25
• Publisher: Open Letter

Summary

Over the past three decades, Dubravka Ugresic has established herself as one of Europe's greatest-and most entertaining-thinkers and creators, and it's in her essays that Ugresic Is at her sharpest. With laser focus, she pierces our pop culture, dissecting the absurdity of daily life with a wit and style that's all her own.

Table of Contents

Karaoke Culture	p. 1
Buy The Jellyfish That Stung You	p. 105
My Digital Life	p. 107
Cans of Tuna Fish and the European Classics	p. 110
Captain, Sir, We Have Plenty of Coffee!	p. 114
No Place for Sissies	p. 119
The Consolation of the Last Resource	p. 124
My Ear the Chauvinist, My Eye the Misanthrope	p. 128
Fear of People	p. 134
Filipinas	p. 139
Serbian Hollywood	p. 144
Bitches	p. 149
Knowledge Is Power	p. 155
The Hairdresser with the Poodle	p. 160
A Postcard from Bali	p. 165
Battle Royale	p. 170
Assault on the Minibar	p. 177
Without Anesthesia	p. 183
No Country for Old Women	p. 5
Old Men and Their Grandchildren	p. 192
A Question of Perspective	p. 203
The Cookie That Made A Frenchman Famous	p. 247
The Fly	p. 249
Dangerous Liaisons	p. 266
The Spirit of the Kakanian Province	p. 275
The Elusive Substance ofthe Archive	p. 299
Afterword	p. 315
A Postcard from Berlin- by David Williams	p. 317
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