I've just got it in the mail. It's very thin but the paragraphs are heavy. It looks like I'll have to give this one a thorough reading since a lot of the concepts I see while skimming through are Very Big and Important.
It looks very interesting though. More when I've read some.
I got this book a few years ago, precisely because it WAS mentioned in the Invisibles. I guess I'm just very impressionable. Anyway, I reviewed the book on Amazon, under the same name I use here -- "buttergun" -- right here
Yeah, I've got it- again, cos it was mentioned... It's ok, if a little clunky, and now feels very dated, but gets across the central point quite well... But borrow it, don't buy it!
I picked this up at the anarchist bookstore in Whitechapel when I was in London, enjoyable but it's a bit of preaching to the converted. Yes TV makes us zombies, and, uh... and? As long as you already refuse to watch TV you're fine without this.
Does TV make us zombies, though? I think having a pop at the telly is a really lazy way for pseudo-intellectuals to make a bit of ready cash (which they probably go out and shiftily spend on plasma screen TVs) from gullible hipsters and which is really only the flip-side of the whole Mary Whitehouse thing.
i bought it in the anarchist bookshop in whitechapel too, about ooh six years ago? they hadn't sold out? anarcho distribuo indeed.
not really all that anarchic to let some crusty tell you what to do with your downtime though is it? 'whatever you do, don't watch telly and don't have a wash.' the idea of them all missing catterick in the most liberated manner possible is quite ticklish.
