- Paperback: 288 pages
- Publisher: Flamingo; New Ed edition (3 Nov 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006548792
- ISBN-13: 978-0006548799
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13.2 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,697,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Our world is getting more complex every day. Faced by a media run amok, a rapidly expanding global economy, the collapse of national and social boundaries and the profound impact of technology on our lives, we all feel like immigrants to a very new territory. Gone is the predictability of an organized civilization, overwhelmed by a seemingly random wave of change. Like any new immigrants to an unfamiliar culture, we must look to our children for signs of how to act and think. Natives of chaos, they have already adapted to its demands. Douglas Rushkoff believes that this is the moment we have been wating for - not an apocalypse at all, but a renaissance in which children's culture will lead us through despair and powerlessness to a new sort of hope. In this text he deconstructs the culture of the generation he calls the "screenagers" - from Japanimation and Nintendo to rave and new primitives - in his search for strategies on coping with, and thriving amidst, the discontinuity of the post-modern experience.
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The Information Age is over. Welcome to the Age of Chaos. Our world is getting more complex every day. Faced by a media run amok, a rapidly expanding global economy, the collapse of national boundaries and the profound impact of technology on our lives, we all feel like immigrants to a very new territory. Gone are the predictability and linearity of an organised, hierarchical civilisation, overwhelmed by a seemingly random and disjointed wave of change.
Like any new immigrants to an unfamiliar culture, we must look to our children for signs of how to act and think. Natives of chaos, they have already adapted to its demands, and have the ability to recognise patterns in this new terrain.
Douglas Rushkoff, acclaimed as 'the brilliant heir to Marshall McLuhan', believes that this is the moment we have all been waiting for – not an apocalypse at all, but a renaissance in which children's popular culture will lead us through despair and powerlessness towards a new sort of hope.
In 'Children of Chaos' he deconstructs the culture of the generation he calls 'Screenagers', from Japanimation and Nintendo to rave and new primitives, in his search for strategies on coping with, and thriving amidst the discontinuity of the post modern experience.
"The case is argued headlong. Hold the book in one hand, your hat with the other"
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
In the first 3 chapters of the book Rushkoff is successful in griping the readers attention by means of a moderately paced story line and attention to interesting detail. However this is not continued in to the following chapters in which dialog becomes less inspiring. This is conceived through a number of long winded a anecdotes and his attention to detail is superfluous and at on some occasion risks becoming tedious. Rushkoff concludes the book with an exiting twist in the final four chapters which are reminiscent of those at the beginning of the book. I finish to say that this book exhibits many of the qualities Rushkoff has displayed in his other works but lack certain qualities which are fundamental to novels such as Bull. I give this book three stars for and exciting opening and an stiring finish but a thin plot in the middle.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an enjoyable book but one that asks too many academic questions without giving any constructive answers. The style of the text is very stream of conciousness and there is no attempt to back up any of the claims made. The text jumps around illustrating one idea with another vaguely related idea or anecdote. I couldn't help feeling that he was just making it up as he went along. Still if you want a fun starting point to a (stoned) discussion rather than a well researched analysis of modern society and those best equiped to cope with it then here you are. However, I'm sure the author would simply disregard this review for being way too linear!
No Logo with a spliff and a paranoid complex...perhaps.
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