{"id":28323,"date":"2017-05-15T11:14:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/?page_id=28323"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:41:52","slug":"thijs-lijster-the-great-leap-inward","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/foreignrights\/authors\/thijs-lijster\/thijs-lijster-the-great-leap-inward\/","title":{"rendered":"Thijs Lijster &#8211; The Great Leap Inward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About the book<\/h4>\n<p>The world looks as though it\u2019s becoming increasingly complex and confusing. In today\u2019s \u2018Network Society\u2019 you can\u2019t drink a cup of coffee without implicating yourself in exploitation and slavery; your job can be at stake when halfway around the planet a bank topples over. Given these developments, we increasingly perceive the world as something dangerous beyond our control and, as a result, turn our gaze inward where we cling to the things we do have a handle on. The result: collective narcissism and a public sphere in which a sharp opinion has more value than a considered judgement.<\/p>\n<p>With a supple pen and incisive analyses, Thijs Lijster offers a kaleidoscopic look at the most diverse selection of cultural and social phenomena, including design, life\u2019s accelerating pace, the omnipresence of opinion polls and the position of illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Leap Inward<\/em> is a plea for thinking against the grain by which even the most insignificant details can be regarded as rich in meaning.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the book The world looks as though it\u2019s becoming increasingly complex and confusing. In today\u2019s \u2018Network Society\u2019 you can\u2019t drink a cup of coffee without implicating yourself in exploitation and slavery; your job can be at stake when halfway around the planet a bank topples over. Given these developments, we increasingly perceive the world&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1135,"featured_media":28331,"parent":28319,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-28323","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28323\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/pages\/28319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/28331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignrights.debezigebij.nl\/wpg-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}