Everything, All the Time, Everywhere How We Became Postmodern
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Biografisk notat
Stuart Jeffries is a journalist and author. He was for many years on the staff of the Guardian, working as subeditor, TV critic, Friday Review editor and Paris correspondent. He now works as a freelance writer, mostly for the Guardian, Spectator, Financial Times and the London Review of Books. He has written two books Mrs Slocombe's Pussy: Growing Up in Front of the Telly (2000) and Grand Hotel Abyss: The Lives of the Frankfurt School (2016).Erudite and entertaining ... <i>Everything, All the Time, Everywhere</i> is a detailed and convincing horror story of the amalgamation of the two most dominant intellectual paradigms of the past half century.
- Ryne Clos, Spectrum Culture
Jeffries is a rarity: a journalist with a serious interest in cultural theory ... who writes about it in a way that is both scholarly and welcoming to non-theorists ... entertaining and astute
- Joe Moran, Times Literary Supplement
In holding a mirror to a familiar world, Everything looks to reveal hidden complexities ... eminently readable, without eliding the difficulties that are so key to its intrigue
- Daniel Baksi, The Arts Desk
Splendidly readable ... Jeffries packs a remarkable knowledge of postmodern culture into these pages
- Terry Eagleton, Guardian
Intriguing
- William Davies, New Statesman
<i>Everything, All the Time, Everywhere</i> finds Stuart Jeffries examining simply and engagingly how a loss of values and critical thought has led to our 'post-truth', irrational world.
Choice Magazine
A lively, sparky book
- Michael Rosen, BBC Front Row
Not only instructive; [Everything, All the Time, Everywhere] is a pleasurable read ... brilliant and entertaining
- Lisa Downing, Financial Times
Engaging and richly detailed
- Christopher McMichael, New Frame
Astute
- D.L. Dusenbury, Spectator
<i>Everything, All the Time, Everywhere</i> is a book replete with philosophical, social, and political references and its range of material is truly impressive.
- Sean Sheehan, popmatters
Pertinent ... on class, and capital, [Jeffries] is good.
- Scotsman, Stuart Kelly
Stuart Jeffries' animated and witty approach in <i>Everything, All the Time, Everywhere</i> is an exhilarating and even intoxicating look at the shambles the relationship between postmodernism and neoliberal capitalism has created.
- Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch
A lively, engaged, critical tour of a wide range of postmodern phenomena ... [<i>Everything, All the Time, Everywhere</i>] gives us plenty to ponder, plenty to debate.
- David McKay, Philosophy Now
We are today scarcely capable of conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than suffer from buyer's remorse?