Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler Paperback - 1997
by Thomas Frank (Editor); Matt Weiland (Editor)
From the pages of "The Baffler"--the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties--comes sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Thrust, that brings the public into the consuming fold and consolidates the power of business over the American mind.
First line
CAPITALISM IS CHANGING, obviously and drastically.
From the rear cover
The 1980s and 1990s have seen an enormous increase in the power of business over the American mind. Not since the Gilded Age have the robber barons of business accumulated more wealth or won more popular attention. But where the tycoons of yore built railroads or banks, today culture stands at the heart of American enterprise and mass entertainment has become its economic dynamo. For a decade The Baffler magazine has been an invigorating voice of dissent against these developments, in the tradition of the muckrakers and H. L. Mencken's The American Mercury. Commodity Your Dissent gathers together the best of its excoriating criticism of the new American cultural order, exploring such peculiar developments as the birth of the rebel consumer as hero in the pages of Wired and Details; the dramatic rise of "alternative" culture in the post-Nirvana era; the appearance of new business gurus like Tom Peters and corporate fads like "reengineering"; the ever-accelerating race to market youth culture; and the encroachment of advertising and commercial enterprise into every last nook and cranny of American life.
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- Title Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler
- Author Thomas Frank (Editor); Matt Weiland (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-10-17
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780393316735 / 0393316734
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.4 x 0.9 in (13.97 x 21.34 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - 1970-, Popular culture - United States - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97034097
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.92
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Citations
- New York Times, 11/30/1997, Page 26
- Publishers Weekly, 10/06/1997, Page 0
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