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Humid, All Too Humid: Overheated Observations

By Dominic Pettman

Book information

Publisher
punctum books
Year
2016
ISBN
0692650148, 9780692650141
Google Books ID
fi6WjwEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3176735 bytes)
Pages
182\184
Time added
2020-12-20 23:59:00

Description

In Humid, All Too Humid, social commentator Dominic Pettman curates the overheated thoughts of his own feverish mind, in response to a world struggling with unprecedented levels of cultural climate change. The book takes the form of aphorism, witticism, maxim, axiom, dictum, quip, jape, adage, proverb, pun, precept, reflection, suggestion, observation, paraphrase, bon mot, vagary, specificky, put-on, put-off, mummery, miscellany, aside, in-front, behind, knock-knock joke, one-liner, tweet, re-tweet, truism, and not-so-truism. Known for his scholarly work on love, sex, and the (post)human condition, Pettman now assembles this collection of humoristic micro-meditations on everything from the meaning of life to the "yoghurt of human unkindness." Humid, All Too Humid reads as if Oscar Wilde had first written Minima Moralia, after binge-watching too many episodes of The Simpsons. "Dominic Pettman is the Steven Wright of cultural theory." -Eugene Thacker

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