The Idler
is a literary and philosophical magazine founded in 1993 by Tom Hodgkinson. It
campaigns for more fun and more freedom in a world of consumer overload.
With issue 42 The Idler takes the periodical in a new direction. It will
reinvigorate the form of the essay, and rediscover good old righteous fury. With
twenty essays and conversations by today’s leading radicals and free spirits on
the theme of Smash The System. How can we remove the trappings of an out-dated
capitalist economy based on debt and greed, and create for ourselves a new life
filled with music, poetry, nature, reflection and merriment? Like Wyndham
Lewis’s BLAST!, The Idler wants to blow away the cobwebs and find new ways of
living.
Contributors will include Oliver James, Alain de Botton, Paul Kingsnorth, Jay
Griffiths Andrew Simms, David Boyle, Penny Rimbaud, John Mitchinson and Clare
Pollard.
The Idler 42: Smash the System will be presented in a fine press limited edition
hardback, cloth bound and typeset by Christian Brett.
Recent issues have been selling over 3,000 copies in bookshops.