{"title":"Alice Bolin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlice Bolin\u003c\/strong\u003e crafts incisive memoirs and reflections that explore the complexities of personal and cultural identity. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eCulture Creep\u003c\/em\u003e, blends sharp insight with moments of vulnerability, inviting readers to consider how society shapes our individual experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful narratives rooted in contemporary culture, delivered with wit and emotional depth. Bolin’s writing offers a compelling examination of how we navigate the intersections of selfhood, belief, and belonging in a changing world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"culture-creep-by-alice-bolin-9780063440524","title":"Culture Creep","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the critically acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eDead Girls\u003c\/em\u003e (“stylish and inspired”—\u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e), a sharp, engrossing collection of essays that explore the strange career of popular feminism and steady creep of cults and cult-think into our daily lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn seven stunning original essays, Alice Bolin turns her gaze to the myriad ways femininity is remixed and reconstructed by the pop culture of the computer age. The unlikely, often insidious forces that drive our popular obsessions are brilliantly catalogued, contextualised, and questioned in a kaleidoscopic style imitating the internet itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn “The Enumerated Woman,” Bolin investigates how digital diet tracking apps have increasingly transformed our relationships to our bodies. Animal Crossing’s soothing retail therapy is analysed in “Real Time”—a surprisingly powerful portrait of late capitalism. And in the showstopping “Foundering,” Bolin dissects our buy-in and complicity with mythmaking around iconic founders, from the hubristic fall of Silicon Valley titans, to Enron, \u003cem\u003eHamilton\u003c\/em\u003e, and the USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cem\u003eTrick Mirror\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow to Do Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCulture Creep\u003c\/em\u003e is a swirl of nostalgia and visions of the future, questioning why, in the face of seismic cultural, political, and technological shifts as disruptive as the internet, we cling to the icons and ideals of the past. Written with her signature blend of the personal and sharply analytical, each of these keen-eyed essays ask us to reckon with our own participation in all manner of popular cults of being, and cults of believing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470367572204,"sku":"9780063440524","price":62.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780063440524-culture-creep.jpg?v=1775217484"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/alice-bolin.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}