Custom Reality and You

Name: Custom Reality and You
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Peter Coffin
ISBN: 9781630154479

Author: Peter Coffin

Narrator: Eric Jason Martin

Unabridged: 8 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/20/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology, Movements

Synopsis

Nothing has changed more in the last few decades than our concept and perception of reality. The effects have manifested in our news, entertainment, and Google searches; we're finding that a lot of things we thought were objective aren't automatically so.

Reality is not a concept we want to flush down the toilet with yesterday's food, though. However, we must begin to understand how it works in a world where profit is the driving force.

About Peter Coffin

Peter Coffin is more or less a cultural critic in a variety of mediums. The author of Custom Reality and You, he also produces the video series Very Important Documentaries and Many Peters, and Adversaries, a marketing criticism show.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sarah

This is going to be a pretty long review... First, some background on Peter Coffin and how I was introduced to him. In 2011, I was first introduced to Peter Coffin through gossip blogger Xiaxue. She told the story of a man criticising her on twitter with his Japanese girlfriend. Xiaxue became interes......more

Goodreads review by Robert

This book presents a philosophy that potentially marketable identities are cultivated by the neoliberal capitalist system crafted from certain ego-centric ideas such as individualism. These constructs leading to a custom reality built of these and other ideas meant to commodify the majority if not t......more

Goodreads review by Freso :watermelon:

It has been a while since I read this book, as I have mulled over what I wanted to say. The things that have stuck with me and why I rated it so low despite being quite agreeable with the ideas and premise of the book include poor editing and some pretty egregious misinterpretations of basic texts a......more