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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787099503321

Titolo

No future for you : salvos from "the Baffler" / / edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann, and Thomas Frank

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-262-32590-X

0-262-32589-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (391 p.)

Disciplina

973.92

Soggetti

Popular culture - United States - History

Capitalism - Social aspects - United States

United States Civilization 1970-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one. The future, recycled -- Too smart to fail : notes on an age of folly / Thomas Frank -- The long con : mail-order conservatism / Rick Perlstein -- The People's Republic of Zuckerstan / John Summers -- Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit / David Graeber -- Photo essay: Feral houses / James Griffioen -- Part two. The arts of regression -- Dead end on Shakin' Street / Thomas Frank -- Hoard d'oeuvres : art of the 1 percent / Rhonda Lieberman -- A cottage for sale : the high price of sentimentality / A.S. Hamrah -- Fifty shades of late capitalism / Heather Havrilesky -- Adam Wheeler went to Harvard / Jim Newell -- The missionary position / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Part three. Positive thinking -- Facebook feminism, like it or not / Susan Faludi -- All LinkedIn with nowhere to go / Ann Friedman -- The meme hustler : Tim O'Reilly's crazy talk / Evgeny Morozov -- Part four. Quiet rooms, dead zones -- Follow the money : the Washington Post's pageant of folly / Chris Lehmann -- Omniscient gentlemen of the Atlantic / Maureen Tkacik -- The vertically integrated rape joke : the triumph of vice / Anne Elizabeth Moore -- Party of none : Barack Obama's annoying journey to the center of belonging / Chris Bray -- Graphic art: GTMO National Monument / Mark Dancey.