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Triumph of Brazil: Fashion and Fascism Converge in Rio Grande do Sul

By Ylajali Hansen ⋅ June 11, 2010 ⋅ One comment

It seems like almost everyone know that fashionistas are also fascists, even if they can’t define the term. But it is interesting how we seem stuck in some eternal return of the same twentieth century horror. Whether it’s corporate fascism, or simply a Versace spread in a magazine, it seems we can’t get out of some infernal loop begun well over a century ago. To dwell on how fascism and fashion go hand in hand seems trivial nowadays, given the fact that one can longer deny that we live in a fascist state.

Children of the Devolution: Our Era of Neoliberal Narcissists and Tech-Savvy Troglodytes

By Anton Steinpilz ⋅ June 2, 2010 ⋅ 6 comments

Generation Y represents the undiminished legacy of the neoliberal 1980s and ’90s, the decades of their inception. They are all ripples and surfaces illumined by sparks of excessive self-regard. They are the people for whom life is one elaborate reality-TV show. More troublingly, they’re a generation for which the contortions of public relations have become a veritable habitus: Good is what nourishes the ego; evil is what you didn’t get away with.

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Anton Steinpilz

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