Contradictionary

Contradictionary
CrimethInc. Workers' Collective (Author)

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Anarchism

Whence do Stockholm Syndrome and Broken Window Theory derive their names? What is the common root of aristocracy and democracy? Who gets diagnosed with Anarchia and Drapetomania? How did voting kill Edgar Allen Poe, and why is a crater on the dark side of the moon named for the man who blew up the Tsar? Alternately scathing and sublime, Contradictionary pulls back the curtain from the war within every word, revealing the conflict behind the façade of the commonplace.

In the tradition of The Devil s Dictionary, our Contradictionary assembles a wide range of wit and whimsy. This is no mere miscellany, but a lighthearted work of serious literature, concentrating a wealth of ideas and history into aphorisms and anecdotes.

• Rank: #417303 in Books
• Published on: 2013-04-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Description #1 by eBay:

author fritz spiegl format paperback language english publication year 02 09 2010 series dictionary subject dictionaries reference subject 2 usage writing guides payment shipping rates returns contradictionary an az of confusibles lookalikes and soundalikes product category books condition new authors fritz spiegl binding paperback publisher kyle cathie publication date 2010 09 02 pages 224 isbn 185626954 x about ocelotbooks our company is dedicated to providing you with the best quality lowest

Description #2 by Rakuten.com Shopping - pickabook:

Ascertain the meaning before consulting this dictionary, warns the author of this collection of deliberately satirical misdefinitions.New computer cultures and their jargons have burgeoned since this books progenitor, The Devils DP Dictionary, was published in 1981. This updated version of Stan Kelly-Bootles romp through the data processing laxicon is a response to the Unix pandemic that has swept academia and government, to the endlessly hyped panaceas offered to the MIS, and to the PC explosion that has brought computer terminology to a hugely bewildered, lay audience. The original dictionary, an urbane and witty pastiche of Ambrose Bierces famous work, parried chiefly the mainframe and mini-folklore of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. This long-awaited revision adds over 550 new entries and enhances many of the original definitions. Key targets are a host of new follies crying out for cynical lexicography including] the GUI-Phooey iconoclasts, object orienteering, and the piping of BLOb

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Crisp, clean, unread paperback with light shelfwear to the covers and a publisher's mark to one edge. -Nice!