When God halted work on the Tower of Babel its workers were scattered, their different languages a barrier to any further construction; in a modern multicultural city, The Shard has arisen, with money talking on behalf of people from around the world. So discusses Peter Conrad as he expands on the material he uncovered for Radio 4’s 21st Century Mythologies and articles in the Observer for this survey of ‘the age-old wisdom behind the absurdities of popular culture’.
Peter Conrad's exhilarating book exposes the absurdity and occasional insanity of our godforsaken, demon-haunted contemporary culture. Conrad casts his brilliant beam upon subjects from the Queen to the Kardashians, via Banksy, Nando's, vaping, the vogue of the cronut, the mushroom-like rise of Dubai, the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, the growth of the Pacific garbage patch...
In Judge Judy, he shows us a matronly Roman goddess dispensing justice with a fly swatter. In the metamorphosis of Caitlyn Jenner from Olympic athlete and paterfamilias into idealized female form, he sees parallels to the deeds of the residents of Mount Olympus themselves. Finally, after surveying advances in biomedical engineering and artificial intelligence, he asks whether we might be on the brink of a post-human world.
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