Superactually - by Chuk Moran (Paperback)

About the Book

A bunch of tiny essays on life after irony, this is a book to help smart people feel hip and hip people feel smart.
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Book Synopsis

To speak ironically is to speak just for the effect. To speak superactually is to do something with words and take responsibility for that action. This is a book of short, provocative essays. Some are on fun topics in pop culture (hackers, dubstep, cat memes, thinking green, parkour, and the girl next door). Others are takes on technical topics in social theory (sensation, hype, discrimination, imagination, and the typical). This is a book to help smart people feel hip and hip people feel smart.,

Review Quotes

Theory today is not dead, but perhaps it should be euthanized. We can no longer hear signal over the noise of its predictable wheeze, its message long since shrouded by an illness borne long ago from youthful indulgences. Chucking aside this death mask, Moran asks, what if theory arose not from the obsessive study of meaning, representation, sexuality, economics, culture, and so on, but from the real ordinariness of chicken salad and ultimate fighting and hoodies and automobiles.,

About the Author

Chuk Moran is 28, lives in a decaying house in San Diego, and is working towards a PhD in Communication by writing a dissertation about software and social practices of time, while teaching and doing his best to have a good time.
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