Zig zag : the politics of culture and vice versa / Hans Magnus Enzensberger.

Author/creator Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : New Press, ©1997.
Descriptionx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Uniform titleZickzack. English
Contents Second thoughts on consistency -- Two notes on the end of the world -- Time as pastry dough : a meditation on anachronism -- My fifty-year effort to discover America -- Las casas, or, A look back into the future -- Reluctant Eurocentrism : a political picture puzzle -- Europe in ruins -- Brussels or Europe? -- Billions of all countries, unite! -- Hitler walks again -- Pity the politicians : a conciliatory gesture -- The hero as demolished man -- The industrialization of the mind -- The aporias of the avant-garde -- Literature as institution, or, The aspirin effect -- In praise of the illiterate -- In defense of normality -- The zero medium, or, Why all complaints about television are pointless -- The street theater of rags : an obituary for fashion -- The future of luxury.
General noteTranslated from the German.
General notePreviously published articles.
ISBN156584436X