Title No future for you : salvos from "the Baffler" / edited by John Summers, Chris Lehmann, and Thomas Frank.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]

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Description	1 online resource
Note	Includes index.
	Print version record.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Part one. The future, recycled -- Too smart to fail : notes on an age of folly / Thomas Frank -- The long con : mail-order conservatism / Rick Perlstein -- The People's Republic of Zuckerstan / John Summers -- Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit / David Graeber -- Photo essay: Feral houses / James Griffioen -- Part two. The arts of regression -- Dead end on Shakin' Street / Thomas Frank -- Hoard d'oeuvres : art of the 1 percent / Rhonda Lieberman -- A cottage for sale : the high price of sentimentality / A.S. Hamrah -- Fifty shades of late capitalism / Heather Havrilesky -- Adam Wheeler went to Harvard / Jim Newell -- The missionary position / Barbara Ehrenreich -- Part three. Positive thinking -- Facebook feminism, like it or not / Susan Faludi -- All LinkedIn with nowhere to go / Ann Friedman -- The meme hustler : Tim O'Reilly's crazy talk / Evgeny Morozov -- Part four. Quiet rooms, dead zones -- Follow the money : the Washington Post's pageant of folly / Chris Lehmann -- Omniscient gentlemen of the Atlantic / Maureen Tkacik -- The vertically integrated rape joke : the triumph of vice / Anne Elizabeth Moore -- Party of none : Barack Obama's annoying journey to the center of belonging / Chris Bray -- Graphic art: GTMO National Monument / Mark Dancey.
Summary	A new collection on carnival hokum and magical thinking in post-apocalypse America -- brought to you by The Baffler.
Subject	United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
	Popular culture -- United States -- History.
	Capitalism -- Social aspects -- United States.
	HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
	Capitalism -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00846453
	Civilization. (OCoLC)fst00862898
	Popular culture. (OCoLC)fst01071344
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term	Since 1970
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Summers, John, 1971- editor.
	Lehmann, Chris, editor.
	Frank, Thomas, 1965- editor.
Added Title	Baffler.
Other Form:	Print version: No future for you 0262028336 (OCoLC)878501731
ISBN	9780262325899 (electronic bk.)
	0262325896 (electronic bk.)
	9780262325905 (electronic bk.)
	026232590X (electronic bk.)

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