"'Selective Ironies' pursues the little and the dark ironies of everyday life and their consolations. Stephen Alomes explores our era of tweets, mobile phones, form, overcrowded transport, travel and human angsts and frustrations in our strange and ever-changing global world. An adjunct professor at RMIT University Melbourne, Stephen has written several non-fiction books as a cultural historian of people, nation and popular culture, and is an expressionist painter in the German and Australian traditions. In his prose poetry, in words and images, he captures our experiences of everyday life and the narcissistic excesses of social media in our visual era." -- Back cover