Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene

by Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker, David Cook

Book by Kroker, Arthur

Genres: Reference, History, Theory

262 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1988

Reviews

[Lobstergirl · Rating 1 out of 5]

This seemed so cutting-edge when I bought it; now I'm just embarrassed to own it and I blame Canada.

[Andy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received a copy of this from my cool aunt in high school: at the time I found it powerful and baffling and profoundly sophisticated in a way I could not quite comprehend. Finding it again in my parents' basement twenty years later, I see now that it is a very good primer on what would have been primary topics of conversation among Canadian graduate students in the late 1980s: Elvis Presley, Walter Benjamin, Hélène Cixous, William Gibson, "Robocop." Recommended if you're writing a movie set in the literary theory department of a Canadian university in 1990.

[Slow Reader · Rating 3 out of 5]

A curiosity of Canadian theory at the end of the 80s. Some good refreshing bits here and there. Way more about Trump than I would've imagined

[Dan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Acquired Oct 29, 1999
City Lights Book Shop, London, Ontario