Daniel Harris - Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism

Pros: Extremely Sarcastic, Intelligent Viewpoints From An Amusing Critic
Cons: You'll Wish You Thought Of It First

It was the end of the semester, and my teacher assigned us our last book to read for the "Introduction to Media, Society, and the Arts" class I was taking. Expecting yet another book jampacked with pretentious thoughts and condescending remarks, needless...

Pros: Makes you laugh and think at the same time.
Cons: Language may be over-intellectual to some.

In this series of interlinked essays, cultural critic Daniel Harris delivers a scathingly satirical exposure of the illusions and hidden values in the aesthetic world of modern consumer culture. Harris presents his insights with a grain of salt, ...

Pros: very quotable and funny.
Cons: a brutal reality you won't want to believe but have to.

Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism is a quotable examination of American shopping habits, from collecting antiques to dressing like a hoodlum. Daniel Harris explains and analyzes the issues and paradoxes that arise, or are...