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This Is Pop: What the shit is and what isn't the shit
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ISBN13: 9798194782819
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.72 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
LONG SPIRALLING SENTENCES, PARENTHETICAL DIGRESSIONS AND SUDDEN, INTELLECTUALLY SHOWY PHILOSOPHICAL PIVOTS.
You're looking at this book which means you are one of three kinds of people. Someone who remembers, someone who wishes they remembered, or someone who suspects that everyone who claims to remember is lying. Which ever you are, you will notice that this book has opinions. Too many opinions, possibly. Opinions about pop music, about algorithms, about humans, technology and culture. If you disagree with any of them (and you will) you are invited to write down your objections on a piece of paper and throw it away. - Eaon Eaon's work seamlessly shifts through paradigms, grinds the rails of cultural tension, and primes the intellectual/philosophical pump to focus on the engines that drive our unconscious. THIS IS POP shows the author has not only stayed on the niche, philosophical beat of the marketplace, but has extended the dark alleyways, nightclubs, and sweat-stained record boxes he rummages through to expose new vantages and ways of thinking on pop culture.
You're looking at this book which means you are one of three kinds of people. Someone who remembers, someone who wishes they remembered, or someone who suspects that everyone who claims to remember is lying. Which ever you are, you will notice that this book has opinions. Too many opinions, possibly. Opinions about pop music, about algorithms, about humans, technology and culture. If you disagree with any of them (and you will) you are invited to write down your objections on a piece of paper and throw it away. - Eaon Eaon's work seamlessly shifts through paradigms, grinds the rails of cultural tension, and primes the intellectual/philosophical pump to focus on the engines that drive our unconscious. THIS IS POP shows the author has not only stayed on the niche, philosophical beat of the marketplace, but has extended the dark alleyways, nightclubs, and sweat-stained record boxes he rummages through to expose new vantages and ways of thinking on pop culture.
Jake Sanders Beautifully written, incredibly thorough, truly incisive. Far too clever for me.
Dave Trott Working out what the shit is, is the shit. Eaon loves the things our overabundant digital culture is pumping out. And he can help us discern the shit from stuff that, whatever you say, just isn't.
Mark Earls Drawing from a winningly scattershot collection of moments across pop's expansive past, not least the journeys it once took us on, Eaon swerves the usual attention-span doom-panic to present a more multidimensional - and sometimes even hopeful - take on living in an age of fragments and the platforms that carry them. While no easy answers take up space in THIS IS POP, it gives plenty of reasons to keep searching.
Andy Crysell THIS IS POP demonstrates that our modern digital world has stripped us of something very important, it's not just attention, it's the journey of experiences something collectively - and music is the canary in the coal mine. This is dense with music references, evolutionary psychology, and is highly readable if you like digressive, opinionated pop cultural writing. The book still ends on a note of possibility, we still have imperfect new spaces where shared culture and community exists online. The 'we' culture can still form and persist. Just different.
Åsk Wäppling THIS IS POP is the exact kind of book every cultural critic secretly wishes they'd written and immediately realises they can't copy. Pritchard's cadence is an un-forgeable thumbprint. Trying to mimic him isn't theft; it's just bad karaoke. It's a book for anyone who still believes a single song can ruin your afternoon or change your entire life.
Andrew Anderson A beautiful, brutal journey into the heart of pop culture. THIS IS POP blends cultural critique with deep psychological insight for a one-of-a-kind perspective: scathing one minute, adoring the next, always gripping. Illuminating, entertaining, and deeply engrossing.
Matt Alden Johnson, PhD Eaon Pritchard is a punk-philosopher-poet. He won't hand you a fix with THIS IS POP. He hands you back your ability to tell what's real.
Rob Schwartz It seems the former Bill Drummond was sent a file containing a book called THIS IS POP by an Eaon Pritchard, he must have at least read a few pages of it, because he handed it to me and asked me to read some of those pages. Which I have just done. And I can tell you, and you can quote me on this - THIS IS POP contains more quotable sentences than any other book I have read since...'.
Yours, from the shop floor,
Brush (Your Shop Steward) on behalf of the former Bill Drummond
Dave Trott Working out what the shit is, is the shit. Eaon loves the things our overabundant digital culture is pumping out. And he can help us discern the shit from stuff that, whatever you say, just isn't.
Mark Earls Drawing from a winningly scattershot collection of moments across pop's expansive past, not least the journeys it once took us on, Eaon swerves the usual attention-span doom-panic to present a more multidimensional - and sometimes even hopeful - take on living in an age of fragments and the platforms that carry them. While no easy answers take up space in THIS IS POP, it gives plenty of reasons to keep searching.
Andy Crysell THIS IS POP demonstrates that our modern digital world has stripped us of something very important, it's not just attention, it's the journey of experiences something collectively - and music is the canary in the coal mine. This is dense with music references, evolutionary psychology, and is highly readable if you like digressive, opinionated pop cultural writing. The book still ends on a note of possibility, we still have imperfect new spaces where shared culture and community exists online. The 'we' culture can still form and persist. Just different.
Åsk Wäppling THIS IS POP is the exact kind of book every cultural critic secretly wishes they'd written and immediately realises they can't copy. Pritchard's cadence is an un-forgeable thumbprint. Trying to mimic him isn't theft; it's just bad karaoke. It's a book for anyone who still believes a single song can ruin your afternoon or change your entire life.
Andrew Anderson A beautiful, brutal journey into the heart of pop culture. THIS IS POP blends cultural critique with deep psychological insight for a one-of-a-kind perspective: scathing one minute, adoring the next, always gripping. Illuminating, entertaining, and deeply engrossing.
Matt Alden Johnson, PhD Eaon Pritchard is a punk-philosopher-poet. He won't hand you a fix with THIS IS POP. He hands you back your ability to tell what's real.
Rob Schwartz It seems the former Bill Drummond was sent a file containing a book called THIS IS POP by an Eaon Pritchard, he must have at least read a few pages of it, because he handed it to me and asked me to read some of those pages. Which I have just done. And I can tell you, and you can quote me on this - THIS IS POP contains more quotable sentences than any other book I have read since...'.
Yours, from the shop floor,
Brush (Your Shop Steward) on behalf of the former Bill Drummond
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