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Barefoot into Cyberspace: Adventures in Search of Techno-Utopia, by Becky Hogge (Barefoot Publishing, £8.99)"Flash published" in paperback and electronically, and bravely self-described as a "zeitgest book", this is a brisk travelogue (with some awkward local colour) of interviews with modern techno-dissidents.
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America and American ideals must be denigrated in every cultural forum because they are still the major threat to the zeitgest of our times.
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However, as young filmmakers raised on rock, pop and rap inherit the industry, and studio marketers chase the zeitgest, the sound of a swelling orchestra is losing some relevance.
The Last Movie Maestro John Jurgensen 2011
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This is just one more example of the zeitgest of our time -- to take an event where something bad happened to some people and put blame for all ills upon European white males and their greedy capitalist ideology -- all in order to make some point about present day politics or ideology.
New World Apocalypse, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I suspected it was after The Technology of Orgasm came out – and I figured someone with your output would be hustling for ideas in the zeitgest.
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He made a bad career move, casting his lot with the wingnuts because he got big laughs by making fun of Clinton and misinterpreted it as a shift in the cultural zeitgest.
Hullabaloo 2004
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Homans assigns a chapter to each conjunction of zeitgest and location.
The Guardian World News Veronica Horwell 2011
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The major public figures behind this end-of-the-world zeitgest, who press and encourage conspiracies and, ultimately, public acts of violence are uniformly right-wing.
Hollywood Elsewhere 2010
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Fight Club, catches the zeitgest against IKEA conformity and the J Crewification of the nineties.
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As the year winds down, Google combs through those searches, identifying the top trends and consolidating them into an annual list meant to capture the U.S. zeitgest.
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