Twerking to Turking: Everyday Analysis, Volume 2

by EDA Collective, Alfie Bown (Editor), Daniel Bristow (Editor)

In this follow-up to the first volume of Everyday Analysis articles, Why are Animals Funny?, the EDA Collective tracks through an ABC of modern phenomena ordered by analytic theme, widely ranging from Advertising to Language, Sport to Education, Film and TV to Work and Play, and Politics to Comic Universes. Punctuating these phenomenal pieces are illustrations from a range of artists and cartoonists, including Martin Rowson of the London Guardian.

280 pages, Paperback

First published May 29, 2015

About the author

Everyday Analysis - who publish under the author name EDA Collective - is a project set up by Alfie Bown and Daniel Bristow, which enlists a range of writers to analyse and deconstruct everyday life and popular culture through recourse to the theory of psychoanalysis and philosophy.

Reviews

[Aaron Schuschu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Typical leftist quoting Zizek quoting Lacan quoting Freud as one non- sequitur of a support for seeing evil in every little thing- the act of which actual fascists call “critical theory” because they’re idiots.

[Mike Mantin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another batch of books, films, two-bit politicians and social minutiae analysed with critical theory and psychoanalysis. This larger second volume isn't quite as striking or as accessible as the first, but it's still brilliantly written and wonderfully varied - as much care and respect is shown to the rise of Ukip as to Kinder eggs.