Commodify your dissent

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.

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

Places: America,  California,  cities,  suburbs,  exurbs

Times: late 1990s