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
Jason Najum
A lifelong movie I already knew the ending to
Jason Najum, Delusions of Grandeur

Scott  Pearce
That psychologist wanted me to come back and see him and the psychiatrist wanted to help my scrambled thoughts, but these people, they're just priests of the new religion. Every unpalatable thought and inconclusive experience is a catastrophe to be treated. They hear confession and then offer salvation and sacraments in the form of labels and pills. ...more
Scott Pearce, The Rider on the Bridge

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