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Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture
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'A faker,' said Orson Welles, 'makes fools of the experts. So, who's the expert? Who's the faker?'
Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes, frauds and forgeries. Treading the tightrope between art and lies, it explores the appeal of stories, objects, bodies or experiences that offer the false promise of authenticity. How do we discern what's real and what's not in a time of influencers and identity scams, counterfeits and cosmetic surgeries, disinformation and threats to democracy? From the imitation game and the uncanny valley to con artistry, trickery and scams, artifice makes the world go round—but perhaps all is not as it seems.
With a magician's flourish and a smooth sleight of hand, Counterfeit Culture unveils the agony and the ecstasy of the unreal. Can you spot the fake? And does it matter?
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Griffith Review 79: Counterfeit Culture
'A faker,' said Orson Welles, 'makes fools of the experts. So, who's the expert? Who's the faker?' Griffith Review 79 lifts the curtain on fakes, frauds and forgeries. Treading the tightrope between art and lies, it explores the appeal of stories, objects, bodies or experiences that offer the false promise of authenticity. How do we discern what's real and what's...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
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Griffith Review 81: The Leisure Principle
In 1930, John Maynard Keynes spelt out a vision of the impending utopia. Work, he said, will become a thing of the past. 'For the first time since creation,' he predicted, 'man will be faced with his real, his permanent problem - how to occupy the leisure which science...will have won for him.' So where did this vision of future...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 84: Attachment Styles
The attachments we form shape our experience of the world and our understanding of who we are. Hell is other people, wrote Jean-Paul Sartre, his point being less about misanthropy and more about how entwined our self-perception is with the ways in which others perceive us. And alongside our personal relationships – from filial to friendship, from collegiate to romantic...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 80: Creation Stories
The capacity to tell stories—along with language and the ability to create art—is seen as both intrinsic and unique to the human species. Over thousands of years, we've forged narratives of our origins, our journeys, and our dreams as a means of accounting for who we are and to define our place in the world. In the twenty-first century, as...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 88: Culture Vultures
There's no escaping the onslaught of content these days. But it seems increasingly tricky to determine what's good and what's not as we stream, tap and swipe our way through our endless entertainment feeds. How can we tell our own taste? Have we reached the end of culture? What place does criticism occupy in this ever-shifting landscape? From page to...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 83: Past Perfect
The past, famously, is a foreign country—but in the twenty-first century, it's one in which we increasingly seek solace. No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media, our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural products that reimagine technicolour-dream versions of decades gone by, or for fantasies of a past...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 92: Lost and Found
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Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety
Like the answer to a riddle, status is all around us, but it can't always be seen or heard. The silent switchboard behind our professional and personal interactions, status dictates our place on the guest list, in the room, at the table; through its connections to class, race and gender, it affords some of us power and wealth and others...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 86: Leaps of Faith
To take a leap of faith is to bet your belief on an unknown future. But belief is central to the human experience; whether it's religious, political, societal, philosophical or spiritual, the act of believing can be a lodestar, a comfort, a ritual, a guiding principle, a reason for living. We place our faith in everything from gods and mortals...Paperback$3299Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 90: Best Dressed
No matter how much or how little you care about what you wear, your sartorial choices are inextricably stitched into your social, cultural and personal identities. Clothing not only dictates how we define ourselves and relate to others throughout history, it's also been a mode of expression, resistance, revolution and disruption.Put on your Sunday best for Griffith Review 90: Best...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
Griffith Review 91: On The Money
Money talks but it doesn't always speak the truth. It's also far more than a medium of exchange and a store of value: money is a status symbol, a friendship destroyer, an opportunity creator, a psychological blocker, an obsession, a dream, a curse, an albatross and an elephant in the room. And if money makes the world go round, it's...Paperback$3500Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
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ISBN: 9781922212801
Publisher: Griffith REVIEW
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 February 2023
Country: Australia
Imprint: Griffith REVIEW
Illustration: Illustrations
Contributors:
- Edited by Carody Culver
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 253.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 196
About the Author
About the Editor:
Carody Culver is a writer and editor. She's been a contributing editor for Peppermint magazine and has written for publications including Kill Your Darlings, The Lifted Brow, Books+Publishing and Griffith Review.
Her chapbook, The Morgue I Think the Deader It Gets, was published by Cordite in 2022, and she's been a featured Australian poet on the Best American Poetry blog.
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