Links tagged with “douglascoupland”
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The X of Generation X
W. David Marx: “…the loudest complaints about ‘cultural stasis’ tend to come from Gen X adults whose cultural interests have long been anchored in obscure and openly-artistic cultural forms.” (via Russell Davies)
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Why the Nineties rocked - UnHerd
Douglas Coupland. “In the 1990s we still had the future, a place that you could travel to, that would be cool when you got there … Right now we merely have a future, and a murky one at that…”
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Douglas Coupland on Generation X at 30 | Books | The Guardian
“The term became a meme back when society only had five or six of them a year.” “I don’t even remember what my pre-internet brain felt like.”
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Some Practical Writing Advice From Douglas Coupland | LitReactor
Number one in these lists should probably be, “Don’t spend all your time reading lists of writing advice,” but I still like this.
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A radical pessimist’s guide to the next 10 years - The Globe and Mail
While my favourite Vancouver-based science fiction author (William Gibson) is writing about the present, my favourite Vancouver-based chronicler of the now (Douglas Coupland) has written this about the future. (via @moleitau)
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Generation X Neo-logisms
One of my favourite books, but noted again because I’d forgotten the phrase “option paralysis” came from it. (via Francis)