Bunker: What It Takes to Survive the Apocalypse
Autor Bradley Garretten Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2021
'An extraordinary achievement . . . gripping, grim and witty' Robert MacFarlane
'Unputdown-able ... No book could be more timely' Richard J Evans
Today, the bunker has become the extreme expression of our greatest fears: from pandemics to climate change and nuclear war. And once you look, it doesn't take long to start seeing bunkers everywhere.
InBunker, acclaimed urban explorer and cultural geographer Bradley Garrett explores the global and rapidly growing movement of 'prepping' for social and environmental collapse, or 'Doomsday'. From the 'dread merchants' hustling safe spaces in the American mid-West to eco-fortresses in Thailand, from geoscrapers to armoured mobile bunkers,Bunkeris a brilliant, original and never less than deeply disturbing story from the frontlines of the way we live now: an illuminating reflection on our age of disquiet and dread that brings it into new, sharp focus.
The bunker, Garrett shows, is all around us: in malls, airports, gated communities, the vehicles we drive. Most of all, he shows, it's in our minds.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780141987552
ISBN-10: 0141987553
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0141987553
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Dr.
Bradley
Garrettis
an
American
social
and
cultural
geographer.
He
is
the
author
of
five
books
translated
into
four
languages,
over
fifty
journal
articles
and
book
chapters,
and
has
written
forThe
Atlantic,
theGuardian,andGQ.His
research
has
been
featured
on
media
outlets
worldwide
including
theThe
Joe
Rogan
Experience,
theBBC,
andNational
Geographic.
Dr.
Garrett
received
his
PhD
from
Royal
Holloway,
University
of
London,
was
a
postdoctoral
fellow
at
Wolfson
College,
University
of
Oxford,
and
served
as
a
research
fellow
at
the
University
of
Sydney.
He
has
been
an
invited
speaker
at
the
Festival
of
Dangerous
Ideas
at
the
Sydney
Opera
House
(Australia),
Chicago
Ideas
Week
and
Google
Zeitgeist
(USA),
and
at
the
Tate
Modern
and
Barbican
galleries
(UK),
amongst
other
places.
He
currently
resides
in
Big
Bear
Lake,
California.
Recenzii
How
prescient
and
timely...This
is
a
tartly
thoughtful
work,
by
turns
witty
and
philosophical,
with
an
undercurrent
of
anger
at
the
way
we
are
governed
and
the
commodification
of
existential
fear.He
writes
pacily,
bringing
to
vivid
life
a
gallery
of
survivalist
wingnuts,
conmen
and
evangelists.
A kind of apocalypticSuper Size Me, in which the author force feeds himself a steady diet of paranoia, conspiracy, eschatology and end-times architecture.
This baseball-cap wearing academic is the world's leading expert on survivalists... But he never expectedBunkerto be so topical.
Brilliant ...Bunker, self-evidently a work for our times,shimmers with a Ballardian imagery of disaster and melt-down.
Bunkeris a thoughtful study into the nature of paranoia and the people who try to profit from it - and it makes fora page-turning read.
A scary, unputdown-able account ... No book could be more timelyas we stay in our own little bunkers to avoid infection, strip the supermarket shelves of loo paper, and squirrel away supplies of food to see us through the shortages that many fear will follow a no-deal Brexit.
This study of bunker sites and the people preparing for the worst couldn't be better timed.
Garrett's research has involved hanging out with millenarian fruitcakes, disaster profiteers and the uber-rich, not to mention tooled-up, swivel-eyed anarcho-libertarians from America to Australia ...His sense is that disaster gives us an opportunity to rethink how we live. What will we learn?
This isa gripping and timely bookabout both the 'architecture of dread' and its multi-billion dollar industry, and what the growing appetite for bunkers reveals about the social conditions in which we live.
Garrett is a bright and buoyant guide andBunkerrattles briskly along ...A necessary read.
Bradley Garrett spent three years meeting doomsday preppers for his bookBunker... If we work together, he thinks, there is no reason that a future global catastrophe has to become an apocalypse. Well, that's something.
Bunkerisan extraordinary achievement; a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning studyof fear, privilege and apocalypse told through the space of the bunker. Garrett has written a gripping, grim, witty work of geography and ethnography, which he completed - with eerie timeliness - in the first weeks of the COVID pandemic. A book about prepping and prognostication, then, which had already foretold its own future.
Garrett's book forces readers to reassess other assumptions about bunkers and those who own them.
There are many strands in this book ...[Garrett] brings sharp insight to a subject that no longer seems so remote or speculative.
A highly addictive book... What makes Garrett's book fascinating is his portrayal of the balance between fringe thinking and the real world.
Bunkerbenefits from the mere fact of taking its protagonists seriously as humans and as members of society, rather than as outlandish characters.
Garrett spent several years travelling the world, going down into bunkers and talking to their owners and tenants. His book is an incredible record of that journey, and also functions asa philosophical or psychological disquisition about space, about freedom, about survival.Bunkeris an incredible readand will surely sell in quite enormous numbers, assuming the human race remains intact and can still read.
A kind of apocalypticSuper Size Me, in which the author force feeds himself a steady diet of paranoia, conspiracy, eschatology and end-times architecture.
This baseball-cap wearing academic is the world's leading expert on survivalists... But he never expectedBunkerto be so topical.
Brilliant ...Bunker, self-evidently a work for our times,shimmers with a Ballardian imagery of disaster and melt-down.
Bunkeris a thoughtful study into the nature of paranoia and the people who try to profit from it - and it makes fora page-turning read.
A scary, unputdown-able account ... No book could be more timelyas we stay in our own little bunkers to avoid infection, strip the supermarket shelves of loo paper, and squirrel away supplies of food to see us through the shortages that many fear will follow a no-deal Brexit.
This study of bunker sites and the people preparing for the worst couldn't be better timed.
Garrett's research has involved hanging out with millenarian fruitcakes, disaster profiteers and the uber-rich, not to mention tooled-up, swivel-eyed anarcho-libertarians from America to Australia ...His sense is that disaster gives us an opportunity to rethink how we live. What will we learn?
This isa gripping and timely bookabout both the 'architecture of dread' and its multi-billion dollar industry, and what the growing appetite for bunkers reveals about the social conditions in which we live.
Garrett is a bright and buoyant guide andBunkerrattles briskly along ...A necessary read.
Bradley Garrett spent three years meeting doomsday preppers for his bookBunker... If we work together, he thinks, there is no reason that a future global catastrophe has to become an apocalypse. Well, that's something.
Bunkerisan extraordinary achievement; a big-thinking, deep-diving, page-turning studyof fear, privilege and apocalypse told through the space of the bunker. Garrett has written a gripping, grim, witty work of geography and ethnography, which he completed - with eerie timeliness - in the first weeks of the COVID pandemic. A book about prepping and prognostication, then, which had already foretold its own future.
Garrett's book forces readers to reassess other assumptions about bunkers and those who own them.
There are many strands in this book ...[Garrett] brings sharp insight to a subject that no longer seems so remote or speculative.
A highly addictive book... What makes Garrett's book fascinating is his portrayal of the balance between fringe thinking and the real world.
Bunkerbenefits from the mere fact of taking its protagonists seriously as humans and as members of society, rather than as outlandish characters.
Garrett spent several years travelling the world, going down into bunkers and talking to their owners and tenants. His book is an incredible record of that journey, and also functions asa philosophical or psychological disquisition about space, about freedom, about survival.Bunkeris an incredible readand will surely sell in quite enormous numbers, assuming the human race remains intact and can still read.