Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0393316734 ISBN 13: 9780393316735

Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997

Riassunto

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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L'autore:

Tom Frank and Matt Weiland are the editor in chief and managing editor, respectively, of The Baffler. They both live in New York City.

Product Description:

Culture has been colonized by enterprise. Mass entertainment has become the economic dynamo that brings the public to the consuming fold and consolidates the power of business over the mind. Telecommunications and entertainment giants have erected a powerful "Culture Trust" and business has taken over the popular imagination. For the last decade "The Baffler" magazine has been hailed as the most perceptive critic of these developments. This work features "The Baffler"'s best essays on the business of culture and culture business.

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• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393316734
• ISBN 13: 9780393316735
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Frank Thomas