false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172630848m/200732.jpg 200732 1 In this thought-provoking collection of essays, editor Thomas Frank and other contributors to the contrarian journal the <I>Baffler</I> examine the unprecedented ascendancy of business as <I>the</I> dominating force in American life. If the closest historical parallel is with the Gilded Age and its all-powerful robber barons, Frank and his ilk clearly see themselves as the muckrakers out to expose the absurdities and abuses of big business. Today, however, advertising has come to permeate every aspect of our society, and corporations are in the business of manufacturing culture--what Frank calls the "Culture Trust." These essays analyze the ways in which this Culture Trust has co-opted the power of dissent by appropriating the language and symbolism of nonconformist youth culture, from hippie slang to grunge fashion; in other words, when the media markets rebellion, it becomes just another consumer choice. As evidence, the essayists explore the image of consumer as rebel pioneered by publications such as <I>Details</I> and <I>Wired</I>, as well as the preeminence of "revolutionary" business gurus such as Tom Peters. The result is a highly original book, a satirical and savage indictment of '90s consumerist culture. 194211 1 10 1997 Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler total:191|5:69|4:90|3:26|2:6|1:0| 191 795 268 19 200732 0393316734 9780393316735 191 19 4.16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172630848m/200732.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200732.Commodify_Your_Dissent_Salvos_from_the_Baffler 0 2 false Sun Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 04 17:57:52 -0700 2007 Wed Apr 04 18:38:47 -0700 2007 Baffler essays. I strongly recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a strongly worded, and very entertaining attack on, the all-too-common doctrine of market populism: that the market always arrives at optimal wealth distributions and t...more...]]> 200732 0393316734 9780393316735 191 19 4.16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172630848m/200732.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200732.Commodify_Your_Dissent_Salvos_from_the_Baffler 4 0 false Wed Jul 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 04 11:30:21 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 08 17:15:12 -0700 2009 Commodify Your Dissent cover a lot of ground, but their central claim is that chaotic individual self-expression, far from challenging authority as its champions pretend, is in fact enslaving the American individual to corporate authority. Th...more...]]> 200732 0393316734 9780393316735 191 19 4.16 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172630848m/200732.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/200732.Commodify_Your_Dissent_Salvos_from_the_Baffler 5 1 false Thu Apr 10 11:09:56 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 10 11:09:56 -0700 2008
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One thing that fascinates me is that when I read this book in public it always provokes questions from strangers and usually leads to interesting discussions. 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