Censorship now!! /
In this outrageous and hilarious new essay collection, underground music icon Ian F. Svenonius tackles such diverse subjects as IKEA, Apple, the weather, the gentrification of punk by indie rock, Marion Barry, the film Heathers, Christian pornography, vampires, hoarding, the role of sugar in empire-...
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Brooklyn, New York :
Akashic Books,
[2015]
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Censorship until reeducation
- Censorship now
- The twist: the sexual-repression revolution and the craze to be shaved
- All power to the pack rats! IKEA and Apple's war on "hoarders"
- The rise and fall of college rock: NPR, indie, and the gentrification of punk
- The legacy machine
- Part II: Fact-finding mission
- The historic role of sugar in empire building
- True origins of the internet
- The documentary crisis
- The artist, alienation, and immortality
- Heathers revisited: the nerd's fight for niceness
- Part III: Truth is not invited to the orgy
- The service industry
- Music and the struggle against sanity
- Notes on camp, pts. II & III
- The hook
- Chocolate City & the antifascist protection rampart: gentrification as war
- The backward message.