The management of mediated culture lies at the core of this account, with divergences, asides and footnotes, occasioned with a certain jocularity somehow added to quite horrifying topics; “....an unseemly interest in consumer goods”, said of a looting Soviet soldier. The anecdotes which leaven these accounts successfully record the fleeting thoughts we share, here captured by a retentive and practised commentator of the passing scene. Eight chapters divide the book into domain areas populated by short essays, each led by an image with supplementary images. History/Politics, Art/Culture, Film/Television, Products/Possessions, The Quotidian/The Strange are the domains covered; the Verisimilitude/Delusion essays complete the volume.