{"id":1788,"date":"2017-05-23T21:50:27","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T21:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/?p=1788"},"modified":"2017-09-02T19:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T19:29:45","slug":"william-gibsons-resistance-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/?p=1788","title":{"rendered":"William Gibson&#8217;s Resistance Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/out1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"align left size-full wp-image-158\" src=\"http:\/\/anomalistbooks-com.securec37.ezhostingserver.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/out1.jpg\" alt=\"out\" width=\"91\" height=\"121\" \/><\/a>Allow us to blow our own horn here. The great science-fiction novelist William Gibson has just given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/book.cfm?id=37\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior<\/i><\/a> by Hilary Evans and Robert Bartholomew a big thumbs up in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/media\/2017\/05\/william-gibson-resistance-reading-donald-trump\/\">Mother Jones<\/a><\/i>. &#8220;At 784 pages,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;a literal encyclopedia of the workings of rumor, fear, and the madness of crowds&#8230;The election of Donald Trump is best understood in terms of collective behavior. Familiarity with the weird and terrifying things we&#8217;ve done before, as a species, is essential to understanding what many of us, driven by fear and uncertainty, are doing now. Baffled by Trump&#8217;s popularity (such as it is)? Read Evans and Bartholomew on lycanthropy and laughing epidemics. Seriously.&#8221; Please note that the political spin on the review is Gibson&#8217;s, not ours. Thank you, <em>Mother Jones<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allow us to blow our own horn here. The great science-fiction novelist William Gibson has just given Outbreak! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by Hilary Evans and Robert Bartholomew a big thumbs up in Mother Jones. &#8220;At 784 pages,&#8221; he writes, &#8220;a literal encyclopedia of the workings of rumor, fear, and the madness of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outbreak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1788"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1806,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788\/revisions\/1806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anomalistbooks.com\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}