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Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity

Hello, I'm Special: How Individuality Became the New Conformity

by HalNiedzviecki (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $14.44
Synopsis

Hal Niedzviecki is one of the wisest, funniest and most acute cultural critics writing today. --Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

Hal Niedzviecki has a blunt message for the army of tattoo and piercing enthusiasts, bloggers, skateboard warriors, and anyone else walking around with the smug certainty that they are one of a kind: Individuality is the new conformity.

Niedzviecki's meditations touch on everything from designer religions to webcasts, from reality TV to the endless everybody is a star platitudes of global pop culture. The result is a smart, witty, and impassioned argument that shatters the you-can-do-anything pop myth and exposes the paradox of individualism.

Hal Niedzviecki is the founder of Broken Pencil magazine and the author of We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 278
 Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 31 May 2006
ISBN 10: 0872864537
ISBN 13: 9780872864535
Book Overview: We'll have a web campaign in support of this book. The web site will offer a contest where people can explain how special they are. (This web component of the book's marketing campaign in Canada really helped with publicity -- www.helloimspecial.ca). Hal is a young, compelling, energetic writer. He is well-known in indie publishing circles because of his magazine Broken Pencil as well as among younger journalists for his many articles that appear in the Canadian press. He is likely to have funding from the Canadian government to go on the substantial book tour. This will be his first book published in the U.S. Think of Hal as a young Thomas Frank, whose own path is similar to Hal's. Tom Frank started the well-known journal The Baffler and has gone on to write very successful books on political and cultural commentary, most recently What's the Matter With Kansas.

Author Bio
Hal Niedzviecki's writings on culture have appeared in newspapers and magazines across North America. He is the founder of Broken Pencil, a magazine covering zine culture and the indie arts. In addition to three novels and a story collection, Niedzviecki is the author of Hello, I'm Special and We Want Some Too: Underground Desire and the Reinvention of Mass Culture.