Kill
All Normies - online culture wars from 4chan and tumblr to Trump and the
Alt-right by
Angela Nagle is a full on deconstruction of what has actually been going on
with society online behind the instagram sheen of the selfie. It is importantly
disturbing and a must read to understand how we got here. Sudden Death by Alvaro
Enrigue is a hilarious time travelling fractured romp that uses real tennis as
a spine to talk about so many glorious things including using Anne Boleyn's
hair in the stuffing of tennis balls. Managed to read these books on a recent
trip to Marseille. There is an interesting video exhibition at the Friche - which
is an old tobacco factory http://www.marseille-tourisme.com/en/discover-marseille/the-essentials/la-friche-belle-de-mai/
with a great vibe. I always gravitate to the MuCEM a truly extraordinary
building down by the docks. Meanwhile in a visit to French Markets in the
countryside it felt like I had found myself in a kind of meta-Frenchness.
