Zig zag : the politics of culture and vice versa / Hans Magnus Enzensberger.
| Author/creator | Enzensberger, Hans Magnus |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : New Press, ©1997. |
| Description | x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Uniform title | Zickzack. 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 note | Translated from the German. |
| General note | Previously published articles. |
| ISBN | 156584436X |