Commodify your dissent : salvos from The Baffler / edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland.

Other author Frank, Thomas, 1965-
Other author Weiland, Matt.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Norton, ©1997.
Description287 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
General noteSubtitle on cover: The business of culture in the new Gilded Age.
General noteArticles published in The Baffler between 1992 and 1996.
General noteIncludes index.
Other title Baffler.
LCCN 97034097
ISBN0393316734 (pbk.)
ISBN0393046214 (hard cover)