Escape attempts : the theory and practice of resistance to everyday life
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Escape attempts : the theory and practice of resistance to everyday life
Routledge, c1992
2nd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-246)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
From sexual fantasies to holidays this marvellous book charts our escape attempts. In a series of dazzling commentaries the authors reveal the ordinary and extraordinary ways in which we seek to defy the despair of the breakfast table and the office But the book is much more than a first-rate cartography of everyday life. It crackles with important theoretical insights about how `normality' is managed. This fully revised edition contains a superb new introduction, `Life After Postmodernism', which exposes the conceits of the postmodernist adventure and which should be required reading for anyone interested in making sense of everyday life.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Second Edition: Life after Postmodernism
- Chapter 1 Open Prison
- Chapter 2 The Mental Management of Routine
- Chapter 3 The Nightmare of Repetition
- Chapter 4 The Inner Theatre of the Mind
- Chapter 5 Free Areas, Escape Routes and Identity Sites
- Chapter 6 Getting it Together
- Chapter 7 Momentary Slips through the Fabric
- Chapter 8 Over the Wall
- Chapter 9 A Case of Mistaken Identity
- Notes and References
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