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Author Klosterman, Chuck, 1972- author, narrator.

Title But what if we're wrong? / Chuck Klosterman.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Penguin Audio, ℗2016
Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, [2016]
©2016

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  SPO CD 303.49 KLO    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Audio-Visual Materials  CDBOOK 303.49 KLO    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  CD BOOK 303.49 KLOSTERMAN    Check Shelf
Edition Unabridged.
Description 8 audio discs (10 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Playing Time 080000
Description digital optical rda
audio file CD audio rda
Note Title from disc labels.
Performer Read by Fiona Hardingham & the author.
Note Compact discs.
Summary We live in a culture of casual certitude. This has always been the case, no matter how often that certainty has failed. Though no generation believes there's nothing left to learn, every generation unconsciously assumes that what has already been defined and accepted is (probably) pretty close to how reality will be viewed in perpetuity. And then, of course, time passes. Ideas shift. Opinions invert. What once seemed reasonable eventually becomes absurd, replaced by modern perspectives that feel even more irrefutable and secure -- until, of course, they don't. But What If We're Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Cultural critic Chuck Klosterman asks questions that are profound in their simplicity: How certain are we about our understanding of gravity? How certain are we about our understanding of time? What will be the defining memory of rock music, five hundred years from today? How seriously should we view the content of our dreams? How seriously should we view the content of television? Are all sports destined for extinction? Is it possible that the greatest artist of our era is currently unknown (or -- weirder still -- widely known, but entirely disrespected)? Is it possible that we "overrate" democracy? And, perhaps most disturbing, is it possible that we've reached the end of knowledge?
Kinetically slingshotting through a broad spectrum of objective and subjective problems, But What If We're Wrong? is built on interviews with a variety of creative thinkers -- George Saunders, David Byrne, Jonathan Lethem, Kathryn Schulz, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Brian Greene, Junot Díaz, Amanda Petrusich, Ryan Adams, Nick Bostrom, Dan Carlin, and Richard Linklater, among others -- interwoven with the type of high-wire humor and nontraditional analysis only Klosterman would dare to attempt. It's a seemingly impossible achievement: a book about the things we cannot know, explained as if we did. It's about how we live now, once "now" has become "then."
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
Popular culture -- United States.
Future, The.
Social prediction.
Certainty.
Perspective (Philosophy)
Certainty. (OCoLC)fst00851461
Perspective (Philosophy) (OCoLC)fst01058886
Genre/Form Audiobooks.
Audiobooks. (OCoLC)fst01726208
Added Author Hardingham, Fiona, narrator.
Note Container title: But what if we're wrong : thinking about the present as if it were the past
ISBN 9780451484871
0451484878
Standard No. 9780451484871
Music No. DD23243 Recorded Books
PRHA 5758 Penguin Audio
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