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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Busch, Akiko, author.     Subjects     Invisibility -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Busch, Akiko, author.       by title:      How to disappear : n...         MARC Display

How to disappear : notes on invisibility in a time of transparency / Akiko Busch. by Busch, Akiko, author. New York : Penguin Press, 2019. Subjects Invisibility -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9781101980415 (hardcover) : 1101980419 (hardcover) : Description:  207 pages ; 22 cm Requests:  0 Summary:  "Vivid, surprising, and utterly timely, Akiko Busch's How to disappear explores the idea of invisibility in nature, art, and science, in search of a more joyful and peaceful way of living in today's increasingly surveilled and publicity-obsessed world In our increasingly networked and image-saturated lives, the notion of disappearing has never been both more enchanting and yet fanciful. Today, we are relentlessly encouraged, even conditioned, to reveal, share, and self-promote. The pressure to be public comes not just from our peers, but vast and pervasive technology companies, which want to profit from patterns in our behavior. A lifelong student and observer of the natural world, Busch sets out to explore her own uneasiness with this arrangement, and what she senses is a widespread desire for a less scrutinized way of life--for invisibility. Writing in rich painterly detail about her own life, her family, and some of the world's most exotic and remote places--from the Cayman Islands to Iceland--she savors the pleasures of being unseen. Discovering and dramatizing a wonderful range of ways of disappearing, from virtual reality goggles that trick the wearer into believing her body has disappeared and to the way Virginia Woolf's fictional Mrs. Dalloway feels a flickering of personhood as an older woman, Busch deliberates on subjects new and old with equal sensitivity and incisiveness. A unique and exhilarating accomplishment, How to disappear is a shimmering collage of poetry, cinema, memoir, myth, and much more, which overturns the dangerous modern assumption that somehow fame and visibility equate to success and happiness"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 304.2 Bu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 304.2 Busch Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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