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The foibles of the 21st-century ego are on full view in this romp through social conventions -- imaginative, offbeat stories that confront society's intractable dilemmas and deftly capture the zeitgeist of our fractured times.  *An undergraduate gets in way over his head when a class assignment to start a terrorist organization goes viral  *A pregnant 10th-grader struggles with her fetus's insistence that she abort him before both their lives are ruined. *A man trying to come to terms with the death of a friend becomes obsessed with a funeral home's online braodcasts. *A mortgage broker gets lost between the Web and the real world in pursuit of a pornography-induced fantasy.  Look Down, This is Where It Must Have Happened is a biting satire of nostalgia, a send-up of the way highschool-era friendships can permanently choke off the possibility of adulthood.  \"Witty and wise.\" --San Francisco Chronicle  \"An equally gifted fiction writer and social critic.\" --Tikkun  \"There's tons of talent here.\" --NOW Magazine  \"Hall Niedzviecki is a remarkable writer.\" --Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street  Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, speaker and teacher. His work is known for challenging preconceptions and confronting readers with the offenses of everyday life. He writes and thinks about the effects of mass media, pop culture and consumer technology on individual life and society. He is the author of books of nonfiction and fiction, most recently the collection of short stories Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened (City Lights Books) and the nonfiction books Trees On Mars: Our Obsession with the Future (Seven Stories Press) and The Peep Diaries: How We're Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors (City Lights Books). The Peep Diaries was made into a television documentary entitled Peep Culture produced for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Niedzviecki is the current fiction editor and the founder of Broken Pencil, the magazine of zine culture and the independent arts.  He edited the magazine from 1995 to 2002. Hal's writing has appeared in newspapers, periodicals and journals across the world including The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Playboy, the Utne Reader, The Globe and Mail, The National Post,  The Walrus and Geist. Niedzviecki is committed to exploring the human condition through provocative fiction and non-fiction that charts the media saturated terrain of ever shifting multiple identities at the heart of our fragmenting age.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591849287953,"sku":"GOR006375747","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872865398.jpg?v=1751170903"},{"product_id":"trees-on-mars-book-hal-niedzviecki-9781609806378","title":"Trees on Mars","description":"The future is big right now-for perhaps the first time, our society is more focused on what is\u003ci\u003egoing to happen in the future\u003c\/i\u003ethan\u003ci\u003ewhat is happening right now\u003c\/i\u003e. In\u003ci\u003eTreesonMars- Our Obsession with the Future\u003c\/i\u003e, cultural critic and indie entrepreneur Hal Niedzviecki asks how and when we started believing we could and should \"create the future.\"What is it like to live in a society utterly focused on what is going to happen next?Through visits to colleges, corporations, tech conferences, factories and more, Niedzviecki traces the story of how owning the future has become irresistible to us.In deep conversation with both the beneficiaries and victims of our relentless obsession with the future, Niedzviecki asks crucial questions- Where are we actually heading? How will we get there? 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Niedzviecki’s meditations touch on everything from designer religions to webcasts, from reality TV to the endless “everybody is a star” platitudes of global pop culture. The result is a smart, witty, and impassioned argument that shatters the you-can-do-anything pop myth and exposes the paradox of individualism.  Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and the author of We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365356114193,"sku":"CIN0872864537G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52108591333649,"sku":"GOR003204424","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0872864537.jpg?v=1751011909"},{"product_id":"peep-diaries-book-hal-niedzviecki-9780872864993","title":"The Peep Diaries","description":"We have entered the age of \"peep culture\": a tell-all, show-all, know-all digital phenomenon that is dramatically altering notions of privacy, individuality, security, and even humanity. Peep culture is reality TV, YouTube, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, over-the-counter spy gear, blogs, chat rooms, amateur porn, surveillance technology, Dr. Phil, Borat, cell phone photos of your drunk friend making out with her ex-boyfriend, and more. In the age of peep, core values and rights we once took for granted are rapidly being renegotiated, often without our even noticing.  With hilarious, exasperated acuity, social critic Hal Niedzviecki dives into peep, starting his own video blog, joining every social network that will have him, monitoring the movements of his toddler, selling his secrets on Craigslist, hiring a private detective to investigate him, spying on his neighbors, trying out for reality TV shows, and stripping for the pleasure of a web audience he isn't even sure exists. Part travelogue, part diary, part meditation and social history, The Peep Diaries explores a rapidly emerging digital phenomenon that is radically changing not just the entertainment landscape, but also the firmaments of our culture and society.  The Peep Diaries introduces the arrival of the age of peep culture and explores its implications for entertainment, society, sex, politics, and everyday life. Mixing first-rate reporting with sociological observations culled from the latest research, this book captures the shift from pop to peep and the way technology is turning gossip into documentary and Peeping Toms into entertainment journalists. Packed with stranger-than-fiction true-life characters and scenarios, The Peep Diaries reflects the aspirations and confusions of the growing number of people willing to trade the details of their private lives for catharsis, attention, and notoriety.  \"Take a peek at The Peep Diaries, an erudite (but not too erudite) look at the culture that Facebook, Twitter, et al. have spawned.\" --Real Simple  \"It's a great read; it mixes frank interviews with people pushing the boundaries of voyeurism and exhibitionism, alongside a bracing critique of the social context that got us into peep culture and the forces that now exploit our participation in it.\" --The Globe and Mail  \"A snapshot of a world in profound transformation. Compelling and creepy.\" --Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine and No Logo  \"If you've found yourself obsessively posting to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube -- and becoming a little uneasy about how it's changing your life -- you should read this book. The Peep Diaries is a superb investigation into how technology is shifting the landscape of our private lives.\" --Clive Thompson, Wired magazine columnist  \"A cogent and penetrating analysis. I certainly hope, as The Peep Diaries suggests, that the cruel spectacle we're witnessing on the tube most evenings actually holds some hope for a more loving future.\" --Douglas Rushkoff, author of Media Virus and Life, Inc. 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