"Shit is indeed fucked up and bullshit. But rather than retreat into indiscriminate rage or existential despair, Malcolm Harris takes the near and distant past as an object lesson whose ultimate effect is bracing. The provocations in these essays add up to something we sorely need: a diagnosis of the present that hasn't given up on the future."--Jenny Odell, author of How To Do Nothing

"The guy with the sign was right in 2011. Malcolm Harris is even more right in 2020. His book is a vivid, illuminating, and prescient history of the tragic recent political past, the maddening strangeness of the oppressive present, and the disorienting disarray of the near future, which seems to always outpace even our fears for it." --David Wallace-Wells, author of The Uninhabitable Earth

Malcolm Harris is a freelance writer and an editor at The New Inquiry. His work has appeared in the New Republic, Bookforum, the Village Voice, n+1, and the New York Times Magazine. His first book was Kids These Days: The Making of Millennials. He lives in Philadelphia.

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