No Future for You: Salvos from The Baffler
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Overview
There's never been a better time to be outside the consensus—and if you don't believe it, then peer into these genre-defining essays from The Baffler, the magazine that's been blunting the cutting edge of American culture and politics for a quarter of a century. Here's Thomas Frank on the upward-falling cult of expertise in Washington, D.C., where belonging means getting the major events of our era wrong. Here's Rick Perlstein on direct mail scams, multilevel marketing, and the roots of right-wing lying. Here's John Summers on the illiberal uses of innovation in liberal Cambridge, Massachusetts. And here's David Graeber sensing our disappointment in new technology. (We expected teleportation pods, antigravity sleds, and immortality drugs. We got LinkedIn, which, as Ann Friedman writes here, is an Escher staircase masquerading as a career ladder.)
Packed with hilarious, scabrous, up to-the-minute criticism of the American comedy, No Future for You debunks “positive thinking” bromides and business idols. Susan Faludi debunks Facebook executive Sheryl Sandberg's phony feminist handbook, Lean In. Evgeny Morozov wrestles “open source” and “Web 2.0” and other pseudorevolutionary meme-making down to the ground. Chris Lehmann writes the obituary of the Washington Post, Barbara Ehrenreich goes searching for the ungood God in Ridley Scott's film Prometheus, Heather Havrilesky reads Fifty Shades of Grey, and Jim Newell investigates the strange and typical case of Adam Wheeler, the student fraud who fooled Harvard and, unlike the real culprits, went to jail.
No Future for You offers the counternarrative you've been missing, proof that dissent is alive and well in America. Please be warned, however. The writing that follows is polemical in nature. It may seek to persuade you of something.
Copublished with The Baffler.
Contributors
Chris Bray, Mark Dancey, Barbara Ehrenreich, Susan Faludi, Thomas Frank, Ann Friedman, James Griffioen, David Graeber, A. S. Hamrah, Heather Havrilesky, Chris Lehmann, Rhonda Lieberman, Anne Elizabeth Moore, Evgeny Morozov, Jim Newell, Rick Perlstein, John Summers, Maureen Tkacik
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262325905 |
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| Publisher: | MIT Press |
| Publication date: | 08/29/2014 |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Sold by: | Penguin Random House Publisher Services |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 392 |
| File size: | 16 MB |
| Note: | This product may take a few minutes to download. |
| Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Chris Lehmann is an editor of The Baffler.
Thomas Frank is an editor of The Baffler.
John Summers is an editor of The Baffler.
Thomas Frank is an editor of The Baffler.
John Summers is an editor of The Baffler.
Thomas Frank is an editor of The Baffler.
Chris Lehmann is an editor of The Baffler.
Table of Contents
Introdution John Summers Chris Lehmann Thomas Frank 1
Part 1 The Future, Recycled
Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly Thomas Frank 9
The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism Rick Perlstein 23
The People's Republic of Zuckerstan John Summers 43
Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit David Graeber 75
Photo Essay: Feral Houses James Griffioen 100
Part 2 The Arts of Regression
Dead End on Shakin' Street Thomas Frank 109
Hoard d'Oeuvres: Art of the I Percent Rhonda Lieberman 123
A Cottage for Sale: The High Price of Sentimentality A. S. Hamrah 141
Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism Heather Havrilesky 161
Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard Jim Newell 171
The Missionary Position Barbara Ehrenreich 185
Part 3 Positive Thinking
Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not Susan Faludi 199
All LinkedIn With Nowhere to Go Ann Friedman 227
The Meme Hustler: Tim O'Reilly's Crazy Talk Evgeny Morozov 241
Part 4 Quiet Rooms, Dead Zones
Follow the Money: The Washington Post's Pageant of Folly Chris Lehmann 291
Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic Maureen Tkacik 305
The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke: The Triumph of Vice Anne Elizabeth Moore 323
Party of None: Barack Obama's Annoying Journey to the Center of Belonging Chris Bray 339
Graphic Art: GTMO National Monument Mark Dancey 366
Acknowledgments 369
Contributors 370
Index 372
What People are Saying About This
Did our system ever work? Will it ever? The fact that it is not working right now is rendered sadder by our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. If you want to feel sadder still, read The Baffler.
Every age has a magazine that matters. For our age, it's The Baffler. Feeling left behind? Here's your chance to catch up.
The Baffler embodies, with its internationalist outlook, the most vital tradition of American dissent. In an age marked by avid intellectual logrolling, it has never seemed more imperative.
Did our system ever work? Will it ever? The fact that it is not working right now is rendered sadder by our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. If you want to feel sadder still, read The Baffler.
—William T. Vollmann
Every age has a magazine that matters. For our age, it's The Baffler. Feeling left behind? Here's your chance to catch up.
—Andrew J. BacevichThe Baffler embodies, with its internationalist outlook, the most vital tradition of American dissent. In an age marked by avid intellectual logrolling, it has never seemed more imperative.
—Pankaj MishraDid our system ever work? Will it ever? The fact that it is not working right now is rendered sadder by our knowledge of the U.S. Constitution. If you want to feel sadder still, read The Baffler.
—William T. Vollmann