Douglas Coupland je autorem, který se ve své tvorbě zaměřuje na moderní kulturu a její dopady na jednotlivce. Jeho styl je často charakterizován jako ironický a pronikavý, s důrazem na vizuální prvky a povrchnost současného života. Coupland zkoumá témata identity, technologie a postmoderní existence s jedinečným pohledem na společnost. Jeho díla nabízejí kritický, ale zároveň citlivý portrét naší doby.
Podtitul: Vyprávění pro akcelerovanou kulturu.
Dnes již kultovní kniha – pocta těm, kteří se narodili koncem 50. a počátkem 60. let – twentysomething. Text je složen z jakýchsi moderních pohádek o lásce a smrti, nukleárním odpadu, předávkování během života a kultuře kýče. Jde o plastickou mozaiku příběhů uprostřed kosmetických salonů a koktejlových barů v Palm Springs, osudů fanaticky nezávislých individuí, kteří vyjadřují až patologickou nedůvěru v jednoznačnost americké budoucnosti.
Nejnovější román autora kultovní Generace X nás zavádí do blízké budoucnosti, kdy na Zemi vyhynou všechny včely. Příběh má pět vypravěčů z celého světa – Američana, Kanaďanku, Francouze, Novozélanďanku a Srílančana. Všech pět se následkem nečekaných okolností potkává na utajeném místě kdesi v USA, kde mají přispět k vyřešení celosvětové záhady.
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Following the hugely acclaimed bestseller Hey Nostradamus comes a major new novel from Douglas Coupland: the wonderfully warm, funny, life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now... This is a major work of commercial literary fiction from an author who just gets better and better.
Douglas Coupland redefines the biography genre in his account of communication guru Marshall McLuhan. With humor and literary brilliance, Coupland presents the life of this eccentric thinker, helping us understand how McLuhan's ideas relate to our interconnected 21st-century lives.
Täglich fotografieren Menschen sich selbst, und eine schwindelerregende Anzahl von Selfies durchzieht die sozialen Netzwerke. Was wird in ihnen sichtbar, jenseits der Annahme, sie seien bloß narzisstische Selbstbilder einer verlorenen Generation? Mit Essays von Theoretikern und Publizisten wie Jerry Saltz, Douglas Coupland und Karen Ann Donnachie bietet der Band eine interdisziplinäre Annäherung an das Phänomen Selfie und beleuchtet dessen Dimensionen, Relevanz und Perspektiven. Die Publikation fungiert sowohl als Selfie-Reader als auch als Ausstellungskatalog und erscheint begleitend zur Ausstellung »Ego Update. Die Zukunft der digitalen Identität« im NRW-Forum Düsseldorf. Diese Ausstellung untersucht den Einfluss digitaler Medien auf die grundlegende Frage der Menschheit: Wer bin ich?
Wer wäre besser geeignet, das Leben und Werk des großen Kommunikations-Gurus Marshall McLuhan nachzuerzählen, als Douglas Coupland. Mit seiner Biographie des Urvaters der Medientheorie erfindet er das Genre der Biographie neu. Humorvoll und literarisch brillant bringt uns Coupland das Leben eines exzentrischen Denkers nahe. Gleichzeitig hilft er uns mit McLuhan zu verstehen, wie wir im total vernetzten 21. Jahrhundert leben.
Bit Rot is a gem of the digital age. Reading Bit Rot feels a lot like bingeing on Netflix ... you can't stop with just one. 'Bit rot' is a term used in digital archiving to describe the way digital files can spontaneously and quickly decompose. As Coupland writes, 'Bit rot also describes the way my brain has been feeling since 2000, as I shed older and weaker neurons and connections and enhance new and unexpected ones'. Bit Rot the book explores the ways humanity tries to make sense of our shifting consciousness. Coupland, just like the Internet, mixes forms to achieve his ends. Short fiction is interspersed with essays on all aspects of modern life. The result is addictively satisfying for Coupland's legion of fans hungry for his observations about our world. For almost three decades, his unique pattern recognition has powered his fiction, and his phrase-making. Every page of Bit Rot is full of wit, surprise and delight.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER The first new work of fiction since 2013 from one of Canada's most successful, idiosyncratic and world-defining writers, Douglas Coupland. He's called it Binge because it's impossible to read just one. Imagine feeling 100% alive every moment of every minute of the day! Maybe that's how animals live. Or trees, even. I sometimes stare at the plastic bag tree visible from my apartment window and marvel that both it and I are equally alive and that there's no sliding scale of life. You're either alive, or you're not. Or you're dead or you're not. Thirty years after Douglas Coupland broke the fiction mould and defined a generation with Generation X, he is back with Binge, 60 stories laced with his observational profundity about the way we live and his existential worry about how we should be living: the very things that have made him such an influential and bestselling writer. Not to mention that he can also be really funny. Here the narrators vary from story to story as Doug catches what he calls "the voice of the people," inspired by the way we write about ourselves and our experiences in online forums. The characters, of course, are Doug's own: crackpots, cranks and sweetie-pies, dad dancers and perpetrators of carbecues. People in the grip of unconscionable urges; lonely people; dying people; silly people. If you love Doug's fiction, this collection is like rain on the desert.
