Thinking Popular Culture

Contents: Introduction: interventions in/denial; Think: Google is white bread for the mind; Stop crying - start thinking. Putting the punch back into pop; Coalition of the guilty; The 8th deadly sin; When Paris became a celebrity, not a city; Free wiki (but what is the cost?); It's only food, dude; Crazy frog capitalism; What are the young people wearing?; You've been Jaded. Design: The last punk; Mad about the boy (London); Handbag nation; A game you play with your brain: philosophy football; Punking yoga; Kindle surprise. Sonic: 2 bars; As cool as the crickets; It's not easy being Johnny Cash; Play 'great leap forward', you bastard; Singing a city; Downloading democracy; I know I won't be leaving here with the Archduke; I'm with stupid. Vision: What have you ever done on the telly?; Pree-sen-na kul-cha; You’ve got to have a good haircut: Live Forever and an end of spin; I don't believe you. You're a liar; Bad wolf; 28.06.42.12; Life, death and disco; Winds of change; Conclusion: cut Elvis; Selected Bibliography; Notes; Index.