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 (Vintage International)
Regarding the Pain of Others
Between the World and Me
Orientalism
Bad Feminist
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present
Humanity has been fetishizing the end of the world ever since we invented its beginning. It’s just easier to destroy it than to heal it, I guess. Chalk it up to our intellectually lazy nature.
Casey Fisher, The Subtle Cause

Men think that misogyny is a women's issue; women's to endure and women's to fix. White people think that racism is a pet issue for people of color; not like the pure, economic grievances of the working class. Rape is a rape victim's problem: What was she wearing? Where was she walking? Had she had sex before? ...more
Lindy West, The Witches Are Coming

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