In We Want Some Too, alternative culture guru Hal Niedzviecki takes us on a tour of a world inhabited by slackers with bad jobs - a generation for whom cultural expression is central to identity. Never before have so many young people been involved in the consumption, production and interpretation of culture. Niedzviecki shatters preconceptions of what culture means at the end of the twentieth century and leads a provocative attack on those who believe that art is for the professionals and television is for the rest of us. From punk jazz and performance art to pirate radio and culture jamming, Niedzviecki unearths the underground, making sense of the barbarians massing at the gates of high art and predicting the death of mass culture. What emerges is a smart, funny, accessible - and ultimately uneasy - portrait of the TV generation, and of the millennial youth culture that has been born out of collapsing values, rising tuition fees, and fragmented families. At last, a book that tells the true story of the cultural revolution, redemption and participation at the heart of the twentieth century.

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