This "witty and droll" collection of philosophical tweets from the popular @NeinQuarterly offers a "perfect antidote to relentless positivity" (Publishers Weekly).

"Rome didn't burn in a day." -Nein. A Manifesto

Eric Jarosinski is the self-described "failed intellectual" behind @NeinQuarterly, a "Compendium of Utopian Negation" that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of modern life. In Nein. A Manifesto, Jarosinski collects his finest meditations on modern misery.

Stridently hopeless and charmingly dour, Nein. A Manifesto is an irreverent philosophical investigation into our most-and least-urgent questions. Inspired by the aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski's short-form style reinvents philosophy for a world doomed to distraction.

Critical thinkers, lovers of language, bibliophiles, manics, and depressives alike will be drawn to this compelling, witty, and often hilarious translation of digital into print, theory into praxis, and tragedy into farce.

[REVIEWS] "I hate Twitter, I think it should be prohibited-but Jarosinski's Nein. is the only exception, the only reason that justifies it! He is like a radical Norman Bates from Psycho intervening with his tweets which are like fast cuts with a knife!" -Slavoj Zizek
"Witty and droll . . . There are gems on nearly every page. The book might seem tongue-in-cheek, but Jarosinski's cynical aphorisms about philosophy, art, language, and literature hold plenty of truth. It is the perfect antidote to the relentless positivity of the stereotypical self-help manual." -Publishers Weekly

"A hilarious manifesto of dystopian epigrams. Nein. is the devil on your shoulder, now on your shelf." -Ben Schott, author of Schott's Miscellany and Schottenfreude: German Words for the Human Condition

"Nein. celebrates everything that it negates. It is quietly, joyously bleak. Will you enjoy it? Perhaps better to ask: can you be certain that you've ever enjoyed anything?" -MC Frontalot



Autorentext

Eric Jarosinski is a self-declared #FailedIntellectual and expert in modern German literature, culture, and critical theory, as well as the founding editor of Nein. Quarterly. Jarosinski's writing has been featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, the Paris Review, and the Wall Street Journal. He is based in New York.



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#FrequentlyAskedQuestions 1. Ontology: what the fuck? 2. Causality: why the fuck? 3. Epistemology: how the why the fuck? 4. Phenomenology: the fuck. Nein. A Manifesto is the brainchild of Eric Jarosinski, the self-described "failed intellectual” behind the hugely popular @NeinQuarterly, a "Compendium of Utopian Negation” that uses the aphoristic potential of Twitter to plumb the existential abyss of modern life-and finds it bottomless. Stridently hopeless and charmingly dour, Nein. A Manifesto is an irreverent philosophical investigation into our most urgent questions. And the least. Inspired by the aphorisms of Nietzsche, Karl Kraus, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, Jarosinski's short-form style reinvents philosophy for a world doomed to distraction. Nein. A Manifesto will be packaged as an attractive small-format hardcover, with a handful of Jarosinski's aphorisms laid out on each page. Critical thinkers, lovers of language, bibliophiles, manics and depressives alike will be drawn to this compelling, witty, and often hilarious translation of digital into print. Theory into praxis. And tragedy into farce.

Titel
Nein.
Untertitel
A Manifesto
EAN
9780802190833
ISBN
978-0-8021-9083-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
08.09.2015
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
4.02 MB
Anzahl Seiten
172
Jahr
2015
Untertitel
Englisch