Are karaoke and hotel minibars bastions of totalitarianism? They are from the unequivocally fresh perspective of Dubravka Ugresic.
Once proclaimed a “public enemy” for her strong anti-nationalistic stance during the war in the former Yugoslavia, Ugresic continues to think freely as one of the most clear-sighted and witty cultural critics of our time. Karaoke Culture–the title of her newly collected essays as well as a term to denote a trend in unoriginality–offers keen social critique that is anything but hackneyed.
