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Salvos from The Baffler EDITED BY JOHN SUMMERS, CHRIS LEHMANN, AND THOMAS FRANK BAFFLER BOOKS The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 2014 Massachusetts Institute of Technology All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. Book design by Phoebe Flynn Rich. Cover design by The Flynstitute. Cover photograph by James Griffioen. This book was set in Hoefler Text by The Flynstitute, Madison, Wisconsin. Printed and bound in the United States of America. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email: [email protected]. The Baffler Foundation Inc., PO Box 390049, Cambridge, MA, 02139 thebaffler.com MIT Press, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available. ISBN: 978-0-262-02833-2 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also from The Baffler Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy (2003) Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from The Baffler (1997) This book is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz (1986~2013). I NTRODUCTION 1 John Summers, Chris Lehmann, and Thomas Frank PART ONE: THE FUTURE, RECYCLED 9 Too Smart to Fail: Notes on an Age of Folly Thomas Frank 23 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism Rick Perlstein 43 The People’s Republic of Zuckerstan John Summers 75 Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit David Graeber 100 PHOTO ESSAY: Feral Houses James Griffioen PART TWO: THE ARTS OF REGRESSION 109 Dead End on Shakin’ Street Thomas Frank 123 Hoard d’Oeuvres: Art of the 1 Percent Rhonda Lieberman 141 A Cottage for Sale: The High Price of Sentimentality A. S. Hamrah 161 Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism Heather Havrilesky 171 Adam Wheeler Went to Harvard Jim Newell 185 The Missionary Position Barbara Ehrenreich 2 ix PART THREE: POSITIVE THINKING 199 Facebook Feminism, Like It or Not Susan Faludi 227 All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go Ann Friedman 241 The Meme Hustler: Tim O’Reilly’s Crazy Talk Evgeny Morozov PART FOUR: QUIET ROOMS, DEAD ZONES 291 Follow the Money: The Washington Post’s Pageant of Folly Chris Lehmann 305 Omniscient Gentlemen of The Atlantic Maureen Tkacik 323 The Vertically Integrated Rape Joke: The Triumph of Vice Anne Elizabeth Moore 339 Party of None: Barack Obama’s Annoying Journey to the Center of Belonging Chris Bray 366 GRAPHIC ART: GTMO National Monument Mark Dancey 369 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 370 CONTRIBUTORS 372 INDEX
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