McCarthy, Tom
Summary: "U., a 'corporate anthropologist,' is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that would sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be translated into some kind of account that makes sense. As he...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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Summary: U., a "corporate anthropologist," is tasked with writing the Great Report, an all-encompassing ethnographic document that will sum up our era. Yet at every turn, he feels himself overwhelmed by the ubiquity of data, lost in buffer zones, wandering through crowds of apparitions, willing them to coalesce into symbols that can be transplanted into some kind of account that makes sense. As he...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2015