Ebook: Commodify your dissent: salvos from the Baffler

Gathers articles from The Baffler magazine which offer criticism of the new American cultural order such as the rise of "alternative" culture.;H.M.S. Baffler / Lewis Lapham -- Opening salvo : the new gilded age / Thomas Frank -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 realm, Mr. sulzberger / Thomas Frank -- 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 -- clsoing salvo : Dark Age / Thomas Frank.