Life's Little Deconstruction Book Self-Help for the Post-Hip

by Andrew Boyd

This tiny manual provides an introduction to theoretical posturing, a commentary on postmodernism, a subversive satire, and a tribute to the love-hate relationship many of us have with fashionable ideas - all in a very few words. Like postmodernism itself, this is a work of imitation, melding cutting-edge cultural theory with the corporate and computer lingos that permeate our lives.

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Humor

144 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

About the author

Andrew Boyd is an author, humorist, and activist. His new book, I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope and Gallows Humor is forthcoming from New Society Publishers in February 2023. He is currently CEO (Chief Existential Officer) of the Climate Clock, a global campaign he co-founded that melds art, science, and grassroots organizing to get the world to #ActInTime. He also co-created the grief-storytelling ritual the Climate Ribbon, and led the 2000s-era satirical campaign “Billionaires for Bush.” His previous books include Beautiful Trouble, Daily Afflictions and Life’s Little Deconstruction Book. Unable to come up with his own lifelong ambition, he’s been cribbing from Milan Kundera: “to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.”

Reviews

[Connor Cannon · Rating 4 out of 5]

I got this book as a borrow from a roommate who found it randomly in a little library somewhere. Which is about the perfect place to find a book like this. I read this book in one sitting, which is obviously not the intended way, if there was any such thing for this book at all. This book is a mind bender and often left me puzzled at each quote. I kept wondering what other outrageous things would be written on the next page. As a student with a sociology minor, I liked a few of the quotes discerning Nietzsche and other sociologists. I wouldn't necessarily recommend this to anyone, but it is a fun coffee book to flip through, and the author put effort into its creation.

[Ed · Rating 4 out of 5]

I normally don't go in for the equivalent-of-a-candy-bar little impulse-buy find-me-in-the-racks-near-the-register-at-Barnes-&-Noble type silly book of chicken-soup-sayings or tidbits-of-this-n-that, but for this book I'll make an exception and it has earned its place in my personal library, simply because it always elicits a laugh during a flip-through. Which counts for a lot in this vail of tears.

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superb! Very droll.