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Slugging Nothing: Fighting the Future in Fight Club
So, you think Tyler Durden is merely a bad-boy hipster rebelling against IKEA lifestyles as he heroically resists the corporate imperatives of the consumer society? Think again. Tyler Durden waging a war against civilization, yearning for a rebirth of premodern culture amidst the ruins of the modern and postmodern worlds. Drawing from Jean-Paul Sartre and Marshall McLuhan, Barry Vacker shows how Fight Club expresses philosophical angst toward the postmillennial and technological futures, where zero and nothingness reflect the existential conditions of a culture that has crashed into its vanishing points, the vanishing points of mediation, hyperreality, and fundamentalism. Slugging Nothing boots Tyler Durden back to his jungle of space monkeys, the noble savages of the non-information age, the next humans of the non-future.
84 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 11, 2008
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