Chronicles of a liquid society, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

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Chronicles of a liquid society, Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

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Umberto Eco ; translated from the Italian by Richard Dixon

Instantiates

• Chronicles of a liquid society

Publication

• London, Harvill Secker, 2017

Copyright

• ©2017

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

• God is my witness that I'm a fool...
• How to protect yourself from the Templars
• The whiff of books
• Here's the right angle
• Journey to the center of Jules Verne
• Corkscrew space
• On unread books
• On the obsolescence of digital media
• Festschrift
• The Catcher in the Rye fifty years on
• Aristotle and the pirates
• I tweet, therefore I am
• Lies and make-believe
• Credulity and identification
• From stupidity to folly.
• No, it's not pollution, it's impurities in the air
• How to get rich on other people's suffering
• Miss World, fundamentalists, an lepers
• Return to sender
• Give us a few more deaths
• Speaking with license
• Conciliatory oxymorons
• The loss of privacy
• The human thirst for prefaces
• A noncomrade who gets it wrong
• Saying sorry
• the Sun still turns
• What you mustn't do
• The miraculous Mortacc
• Joyce and the Maserati
• Napoleon never existed
• Are we all mad?
• Idiots and the responsible press
• The old and the young.
• The average lifespan
• Fair is foul, and foul is fair?
• Thirteen years misspent
• Once upon a time there was Churchill
• A generation of aliens
• Online.
• The liquid society
• My email doubles
• How to elect the president
• The hacker is crucial to the system
• Too much of the internet? But in China...
• Here's a good game
• The textbook as teacher
• How to copy from the internet
• What's the point of having a teacher?
• the fifth estate
• A further note
• Turning back the clock.
• Dogmatism and fallibilism
• Marina, Marina, Marina
• I urge you to be brief
• On cell phones.
• More thoughts on the cell phone
• Swallowing the cell phone
• On photography
• Evolution: all with just one hand
• The cell phone and the queen in "Snow White"
• On conspiracies.
• Freestyle Catholics and sanctimonious secularists
• Where's the deep throat?
• Conspiracies and plots
• Fine company
• Don't believe in coincidences
• The conspiracy on conspiracies
• On mass media.
• Radiophonic hypnosis
• There are two Bit Brothers
• Roberta
• The mission of the crime story
• Have we really invented so much?
• Bin Laden's allies
• Going to the same place
• Mandrake, an Italian hero?
• Are viewers bad for television?
• Give us today our daily crime
• Maybe Agamemnon was worse than Bush
• High medium low
• "Intellectually speaking"
• Suspects behaving badly
• Shaken or stirred?
• Full speed backward!
• Too many dates for Nero Wolfe
• Unhappy is the land
• Time and history
• Forms of racism.
• Women philosophers
• Where do you find anti-Semitism?
• Who told women to veil themselves?
• Husbands of unknown wives
• Proust and the Boche
• From Maus to Charlie
• I remember, I remember
• On hatred and death.
• On hatred and on love
• Where has death gone?
• Our parts
• Religion and philosophy.
• Seers see what they know
• European roots
• The lotus and the cross
• Relativism?
• Chance and intelligent design
• Being seen.
• The reindeer and the camel
• Watch it, loudmouth...
• Idolatry and iconoclasm lite
• The cocaine of the people
• The crucifix, almost a secular symbol
• Those strangers, the three Kings
• Mad about Hypatia
• Halloween, relativism, and Celts
• Damned philosophy
• Evasion and secret redress
• Wave ciao ciao to the camera
• The holy experiment
• Monotheisms and polytheisms
• A good education.
• Who gets cited most?
• Political correctness
• Thoughts in fair copy
• Meeting face-to-face
• The pleasure of lingering
• On books, etc.
• Is Harry Potter bad for adults?

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000061170906

Dimensions

24 cm.

Extent

vii, 304 pages

Isbn

9781911215318

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

Record ID

u201322

System control number

(OCoLC)972974930