Chronicles of a liquid society

Eco, Umberto, (author.). Dixon, Richard, (translator.). Eco, Umberto. translation of: Pape Satàn Aleppe : cronache di una società liquida. English. (Added Author).

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ISBN: 9780544974487
Physical Description vii, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017.

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"Originally published in Italian as Pape Satàn Aleppe : cronache di una società liquida"--Title page verso.

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Chronicles of a Liquid Society

by Eco, Umberto; Dixon, Richard (Translator)

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Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Foreword	p. ix
	The Liquid Society	p. 1
	Turning Back the Clock
	Freestyle Catholics and sanctimonious secularists	p. 7
	Have we really invented so much?	p. 9
	Full speed backward!	p. 11
	I remember, I remember	p. 14
	Being Seen
	Wave ciao ciao to the camera	p. 19
	God is my witness that I'm a fool...	p. 21
	I tweet, therefore I am	p. 24
	The loss of privacy	p. 26
	The Old and the Young
	The average lifespan	p. 31
	Fair is foul, and foul is fair?	p. 33
	Thirteen years misspent	p. 36
	Once upon a time there was Churchill	p. 38
	A generation of aliens	p. 41
	Online
	My email doubles	p. 47
	How to elect the president	p. 49
	The hacker is crucial to the system	p. 51
	Too much of the Internet? But in China ...	p. 53
	Here's a good game	p. 55
	The textbook as teacher	p. 57
	How to copy from the Internet	p. 59
	What's the point of having a teacher?	p. 62
	The fifth estate	p. 64
	A further note	p. 67
	Dogmatism and fallibilism	p. 69
	Marina, Marina, Marina	p. 71
	I urge you to be brief	p. 73
	On Cell Phones
	More thoughts on the cell phone	p. 77
	Swallowing the cell phone	p. 82
	On photography	p. 83
	Evolution: all with just one hand	p. 85
	The cell phone and the queen in "Snow White"	p. 86
	On Conspiracies
	Where's the deep throat?	p. 91
	Conspiracies and plots	p. 93
	Fine company	p. 96
	Don't believe in coincidences	p. 98
	The conspiracy on conspiracies	p. 100
	On Mass Media
	Radiophonic hypnosis	p. 105
	There are two Big Brothers	p. 107
	Roberta	p. 109
	The mission of the crime story	p. 111
	Bin Laden's allies	p. 112
	Going to the same place	p. 115
	Mandrake, an Italian hero?	p. 117
	Are viewers bad for television?	p. 120
	Give us today our daily crime	p. 122
	Maybe Agamemnon was worse than Bush	p. 125
	High medium low	p. 128
	"Intellectually speaking"	p. 130
	Suspects behaving badly	p. 132
	Shaken or stirred?	p. 134
	Too many dates for Nero Wolfe	p. 136
	Unhappy is the land	p. 139
	Time and history	p. 140
	Forms of Racism
	Women philosophers	p. 145
	Where do you find anti-Semitism?	p. 147
	Who told women to veil themselves?	p. 150
	Husbands of unknown wives	p. 153
	Proust and the Boche	p. 155
	From Maus to Charlie	p. 159
	On Hatred and Death
	On hatred and on love	p. 165
	Where has death gone?	p. 167
	Our Paris	p. 169
	Religion and Philosophy
	Seers see what they know	p. 175
	European roots	p. 177
	The lotus and the cross	p. 179
	Relativism?	p. 182
	Chance and Intelligent Design	p. 183
	The reindeer and the camel	p. 186
	Watch it, loudmouth ...	p. 188
	Idolatry and iconoclasm lite	p. 191
	The cocaine of the people	p. 193
	The crucifix, almost a secular symbol	p. 196
	Those strangers, the Three Kings	p. 198
	Mad about Hypatia	p. 201
	Halloween, relativism, and Celts	p. 203
	Damned philosophy	p. 206
	Evasion and secret redress	p. 208
	The holy experiment	p. 210
	Monotheisms and polytheisms	p. 212
	A Good Education
	Who gets cited most?	p. 217
	Political correctness	p. 219
	Thoughts in fair copy	p. 221
	Meeting face-to-face	p. 223
	The pleasure of lingering	p. 225
	On Books, Etc.
	Is Harry Potter bad for adults?	p. 231
	How to protect yourself from the Templars	p. 233
	The whiff of books	p. 236
	Here's the right angle	p. 238
	Journey to the center of Jules Verne	p. 241
	Corkscrew space	p. 243
	On unread books	p. 246
	On the obsolescence of digital media	p. 249
	Festschrift	p. 251
	The Catcher in the Rye fifty years on	p. 252
	Aristotle and the pirates	p. 255
	Lies and make-believe	p. 257
	Credulity and identification	p. 259
	Who's afraid of paper tigers?	p. 261
	From Stupidity to Folly
	No, it's not pollution, it's impurities in the air	p. 267
	How to get rich on other people's suffering	p. 270
	Miss World, fundamentalists, and lepers	p. 272
	Return to sender	p. 274
	Give us a few more deaths	p. 277
	Speaking with license	p. 279
	Conciliatory oxymorons	p. 281
	The human thirst for prefaces	p. 283
	A noncomrade who gets it wrong	p. 286
	Saying sorry	p. 288
	The Sun still turns	p. 291
	What you mustn't do	p. 293
	The miraculous Mortacc	p. 294
	Joyce and the Maserati	p. 296
	Napoleon never existed	p. 298
	Are we all mad?	p. 300
	Idiots and the responsible press	p. 302

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