Cultural Criticism


Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
The Society of the Spectacle
Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
The Fire Next Time
Regarding the Pain of Others
Between the World and Me
Orientalism
Bad Feminist
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length by Roger EbertI Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie by Roger EbertA Massive Swelling by Cintra WilsonShit, Actually by Lindy WestAyoade on Top by Richard Ayoade
Funniest Criticism
8 books — 2 voters
BREAKING THE BIAS OF ENGLISH by Vivian ProbstThe Audible Past by Jonathan SterneThe Soundscape by R. Murray SchaferNoise, Water, Meat by Douglas KahnNoise by Jacques Attali
Noise, Music & Sound
134 books — 21 voters

Friedrich Nietzsche
Business people - Your business - is your greatest prejudice: it ties you to your locality, to the company you keep, to the inclinations you feel. Diligent in business - but indolent in spirit, content with your inadequacy, and with the cloak of duty hung over this contentment: that is how you live, that is how you want your children to live!
Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

John Ruskin
All great art is praise.
John Ruskin, Lectures on Art

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