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Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economyby Thomas Frank , Tom Frank, David MulcaheyISBN 0393324303 (0-393-32430-3)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy'Book summary:Salvos of sane and humorous dissent from the worship of the almighty market.
For a magazine dedicated to debunking the nation's business culture, the final years of the twentieth century overflowed with bounty. "It was the most spectacular outbreak of mass delirium that we are likely to see in our lifetimes," wrote the editors of The Baffler. What was for others the dawn of a "New Economy" was for The Baffler a cornucopia of absurdity the costliest political and financial hustle in living memory. Reporting from places far from the white-hot centers of the libertarian revolution, Baffler writers were the people of whom it was fashionable to say they just don't get it. While New Democrats turned somersaults for Wall Street and economic commentary became puffery, these bold, talented, and very funny writers observed the crescendo of folly with which the century turned. Here their best writings are selected, updated, and reaffirmed, to sharpen our wits and inoculate us against follies yet to come. [via]More editions of Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy:
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Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Bafflerby Thomas Frank , Matt WeilandISBN 0393316734 (0-393-31673-4)
Softcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Commodify Your Dissent : Salvos from the Baffler'Book summary:In this thought-provoking collection of essays, editor Thomas Frank and other contributors to the contrarian journal the Baffler examine the unprecedented ascendancy of business as the dominating force in American life. If the closest historical parallel is with the Gilded Age and its all-powerful robber barons, Frank and his ilk clearly see themselves as the muckrakers out to expose the absurdities and abuses of big business. Today, however, advertising has come to permeate every aspect of our society, and corporations are in the business of manufacturing culture--what Frank calls the "Culture Trust." These essays analyze the ways in which this Culture Trust has co-opted the power of dissent by appropriating the language and symbolism of nonconformist youth culture, from hippie slang to grunge fashion; in other words, when the media markets rebellion, it becomes just another consumer choice. As evidence, the essayists explore the image of consumer as rebel pioneered by publications such as Details and Wired, as well as the preeminence of "revolutionary" business gurus such as Tom Peters. The result is a highly original book, a satirical and savage indictment of '90s consumerist culture. [via]
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The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerismby Thomas FrankISBN 0226260127 (0-226-26012-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism'Book summary:In his book-length essay The Conquest of Cool, Thomas Frank explores the ways in which Madison Avenue co-opted the language of youthful '60s rebellion. It is "the story," Frank writes, "of the bohemian cultural style's trajectory from adversarial to hegemonic; the story of hip's mutation from native language of the alienated to that of advertising." This appropriation had wide-ranging consequences that deeply transformed our culture--consequences that linger in the form of '90s "hip consumerism." (Think of Nike using the song "Revolution" to sell sneakers, or Coca-Cola using replicas of Ken Kesey's bus to peddle Fruitopia.)
This is no simplistic analysis of how the counterculture "sold out" to big business. Instead, Frank shows how the counterculture and business culture influenced one another. In fact, he writes, the counterculture's critique of mass society mimicked earlier developments in business itself, when a new generation of executives attacked the stultified, hierarchical nature of corporate life. Counterculture and business culture evolved together over time--until the present day, when they have become essentially the same thing. According to Frank, the '60s live on in the near-archetypal dichotomy of "hip" and "square," now part of advertising vernacular, signifying a choice between consumer styles. [via]
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The Empty Centreby Thomas FrankISBN 0436206218 (0-436-20621-8)
Softcover, Random House
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Introduction to the PDP-11 and Its Assembly Languageby Thomas FrankISBN 0134917049 (0-13-491704-9)
Hardcover, Prentice-Hall
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New Consensus for Old: Cultural Studies from Left to Rightby Thomas FrankISBN 0971757542 (0-9717575-4-2)
Softcover, Prickly Paradigm
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One Market under God : Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and the End of Economic Democracyby Thomas FrankISBN 0099422247 (0-09-942224-7)
Softcover, Random House
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› Find signed collectible books: 'One Market under God : Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy'Book summary:After nearly a decade of bull markets, Americans have come to equate free markets with democracy. Never one for mincing words, social critic Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool, challenges this myth. With his acerbic wit and contempt for sophistry, he declares the New Economy a fraud. Frank scours business literature, management theory, and marketing and advertising to expose the elaborate fantasies that have inoculated business against opposition. This public relations campaign joins an almost mystical belief in markets, a contempt for government in any form, and an "ecstatic" confusion of markets with democracy. Frank traces the roots of this movement from the 1920s, and sees its culmination in market populism as a fusion of the rebellious '60s with the greedy '80s. The overarching irony is the swapping of roles--suddenly Wall Street is no longer full of stodgy moneygrubbers, but cool entrepreneurs "leaping on their trampolines, typing out a few last lines on the laptop before paragliding, riding their bicycles to work, listening to Steppenwolf while they traded." Meanwhile, "Americans traded their long tradition of electoral democracy for the democracy of the supermarket, where all brands are created equal and endowed by their creators with all sorts of extremeness and diversity." Frank's close reading of the salesmen of market populism nails such financial gurus as George Gilder, Joseph Nocera, Kevin Kelly, and Thomas Friedman. Their writings, he contends, have served to make "the world safe for billionaires" by winning the cultural and political battle--legitimizing the corporate culture and its demands for privatization, deregulation, and non-interference. Frank's incisive prose verges on brilliant at times, though his yen for repetition can be exasperating. In either case, his boisterous reminder that markets are fundamentally not democracies is worth repeating as the level of wealth polarization in America reaches heights not seen since the 1920s. --Lesley Reed [via]
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The Virtues of Language: History in Language, Linguistics and Texts Papers in Memory of Thomas Frankby Thomas Frank , Dieter Stein, Rosanna SornicolaISBN 1556196245 (1-55619-624-5)
Hardcover, John Benjamins Pub Co
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What's the Matter with America?by Thomas FrankISBN 0099492938 (0-09-949293-8)
Softcover, Random House
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What's The Matter With Kansas?: How Conservatives Won The Heart Of Americaby Thomas FrankISBN 080507774X (0-8050-7774-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Wrecking Crew: Conservative Rule in Theory and Practiceby Thomas FrankISBN 0805079882 (0-8050-7988-2)
Hardcover, Metropolitan Books
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