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Generation Bubble
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Generation Bubble surveys the psychic landscape of the “bubble generation,” a term we’ve coined to describe the progeny of the great age of deregulation. The ones the Culture Industry so breathlessly panders to. The ones who inform media content. The postliterate. The MySpacers. The FaceBookers. The lappers-up of bloody delicacies proffered by the latest cinematic torture-porn. The freak-dancers. The body-obsessed. The overexercisers. The blasé wearers of overpriced slave-sewn garments. The pathologically other-directed. The aggressively lifestyle-oriented. The tunnel-visioned enablers of the status quo.
This blog examines the cultural and economic implications of such a queasy coition of History and Humanity with a view to descrying the contours of a topography disconcertingly featureless.
- Added on: Mar 28th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Generation Bubble
- Listed in: Cultural News & Media
- Tags: politics literature Economy consumerism theory popular culture
Recent Posts
The Order of Things: Consumerism’s Grammar of Desire
Life under conditions of global capital has shown us that there’s no way to consume our way out of the traps of consumerist conformity, no matter how alternative or distinctive our consumption practices are. We simply can’t stop ourselves...
Fall into the Gap: A Parallax View of Employment
Capitalism brings the greatest happiness to the greatest number of people. Capitalism subordinates untold numbers of people to a regime which cheats them of the fair value of their labor. Orwellian doublethink or Žižekian parallax? You decide. Sylv...
The Curse of the Gift: Toxic Robot Hamsters and American Infantilism
Americans’ holiday baubles no longer reflect Americans’ peculiar customs, but world custom under global Capital. As the recent discovery of toxic metals in the latest fad gift shows, holidays these days are one giant externality. The othe...
Local Theater: Counterinsurgency and Biopower in California
The compassionate conservatism and faith-based initiatives proffered by George W. Bush as replacements for social programs seemed never to have appeared. But now they have, in Salinas, California. The current counterinsurgency operation there shows t...
Little Big Home: Dr. Free’s Unique Housing-Crisis Solution
For today’s post Generation Bubble jumps into the wayback machine to re-visit Dr. Free, whose remedy for the foreclosure blues allows one to bring a little flair to Hooverville living. Dances with mortgage wolves leavin’ you dizzy? Seeing...
Saving Metropolis: Creative-Class Struggle and the Future of Money
Visions of what the future holds come in many shapes and guises. Peak-oil doomsayer James Howard Kunstler and economist Richard Florida offer theirs, and they stand radically opposed. Whatever happens tomorrow results from what happens today, which p...
