Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler

H.M.S. Baffler - Lewis Lapham Opening Salvo: The New Guilded Age - Thomas Frank Part I. The Rebel Consumer Why Johnny Can't Dissent - Thomas Frank The Killer App: Wired Magazine, Voice of the Corporate Revolution - Keith White Back in Black: Here Come the Beatniks! - Maura Mahoney Burn Down the House of Commons in Your Brand New Shoes - Keith White Consolidated Deviance, Inc. - Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahey Part II. The Culture of Business Apostles of the new Entrepreneur: Business Books and the Management Crisis - Bill Boisvert I've Seen the Future - and It's a Sony! - Stephen Duncombe The Time-Management Gospel - Jennifer Brostrom Leadership and You - Dave Mulcahey The Advertised Life - Tom Vanderbilt Part III. The Culturetrust (tm) Generation Alternative to What? - Thomas Frank What Is Alternative? - Chris Holmes The Problem with Music - Steve Albini The Packaging of a Literary Persona - Maura Mahoney A Dream of Perfect Reception: The Movies of Quentin Tarantino - Gary Groth Twenty-Nothing - Thomas Frank and Keith White Harsh Ream, Mr. Sulzberger! - Thomas Frank Part IV Wealth against Commonwealth Revisited Twentieth Century Lite - Thomas Frank Post-Urban, Post-Industrial but Never Post-Elite - Edward Castleton Revolt of the Nice: Edge City, Capital of the Twenty-First Century - Tom Vanderbilt Lotteryville, USA - Kim Phillips The Gaudy and Damned - Tom Vanderbilt Closing Salvo: Dark Age - Thomas Frank Contributors Index About The Baffler