Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler

Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler
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Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 9780393342802
ISBN-13 : 0393342808
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Book Synopsis Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler by : Thomas Frank

Download or read book Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler written by Thomas Frank and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the pages of The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, satirical broadsides against the Culture Trust. In the "old" Gilded Age, the barons of business accumulated vast wealth and influence from their railroads, steel mills, and banks. But today it is culture that stands at the heart of the American enterprise, mass entertainment the economic dynamo that brings the public into the consuming fold and consolidates the power of business over the American mind. For a decade The Baffler has been the invigorating voice of dissent against these developments, in the grand tradition of the muckrakers and The American Mercury. This collection gathers the best of its writing to explore such peculiar developments as the birth of the rebel hero as consumer in the pages of Wired and Details; the ever-accelerating race to market youth culture; the rise of new business gurus like Tom Peters and the fad for Hobbesian corporate "reengineering"; and the encroachment of advertising and commercial enterprise into every last nook and cranny of American life. With its liberating attitude and cant-free intelligence, this book is a powerful polemic against the designs of the culture business on us all.


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