Commodify your dissent

By Editors - Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland

Subjects: Industries, social aspects, Advertising, Consumers, Consumers, united states, Civilization, Popular culture, united states, Popular culture, Corporations, History, Subculture, Wealth, Generation X

Description: A series of essays on consumerism, corporations and marketing in the culture of late twentieth-century America. Targets of these snarky and often smart "salvos" include malls, exurbs, business books, and record labels (remember those?). The co-opting of grunge (remember that?) is critiqued in loving detail. More serious pieces address the rise of the Internet as a commercial force, and question how we should think about work in an age of digitization.