The Idler 42: Smash the System

by Tom Hodgkinson

Genres: Philosophy

352 pages, Hardcover

First published June 17, 2009

About the author

Tom Hodgkinson (b. 1968) is a British writer and the editor of The Idler, which he established in 1993 with his friend Gavin Pretor-Pinney. He was educated at Westminster School. He has contributed articles to The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian and The Sunday Times as well as being the author of The Idler spin-off How To Be Idle (2005), How To Be Free (released in the U.S. under the title The Freedom Manifesto) and The Idle Parent.

In 2006 Hodgkinson created National Unawareness Day, to be celebrated on 1 November.

Reviews

[Tom]

Collection of essays on how to smash the system. Some very interesting, some misguided and irritating.

[Marc]

Nice.