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Celebrities
- Bubblepalooza: Trippin' the Light Craptastic - Comments (0)
- The Twitter End - Comments (1)
- Bubble Sexy - Comments (0)
Consumerism
- Exchange Relations: On the Impossibility of Gift Giving - Comments (4)
- Affected Affinities: Facebook and the Transformation of Liking - Comments (3)
- Border Studies: Cultural Exchange Meets Armani Exchange - Comments (2)
- Commodity Futures: The Self as Advertising Agency - Comments (0)
- Ghosts in the Machine: Lonely Consumers Find Social Networks - Comments (1)
- Dig a Phony: Identity, Consumerism, and the Jelly-Jar Problem - Comments (2)
- The Order of Things: Consumerism’s Grammar of Desire - Comments (2)
- Confessio Fraternitatis: Twitter as Spiritual Exercise - Comments (7)
- In Dubious Battle: Co-creation and the Coming Insurrection - Comments (3)
- Public Image Unlimited: Consumerism and Anonymity’s End - Comments (5)
Culture
- Spooky Tooth: Dental Health and Social Determinism - Comments (0)
- Quakes and Ale (A Piece for The New Inquiry) - Comments (0)
- Desiring-Machines: Personal Communication Devices and Virtual Bureaucracy - Comments (1)
- Master Signifiers: Lacan, L. Ron, and Graduate School - Comments (2)
- American Psycho: U.S. Still Crazy After All These Years - Comments (1)
- Textual Immaturity: On Books Read Too Soon and Too Late - Comments (1)
- So Wrong They’re Right: Conservatism, Homeschoolers, and Contemporary Cinema - Comments (2)
- Unchained Melody: At Home in the Consumerist Funhouse - Comments (0)
- Patriot Games: American Exceptionalism and the Endangered Middle Class - Comments (0)
- Life in Review: Crowdsourced Tastemaking and the Death of Serendipity - Comments (6)
Distant Listening
- Transcendental Synthesizers: “Subdivisions” by Rush (Distant Listening #7) - Comments (0)
- True Sailing Is Dead: “Horse Latitudes” by the Doors (Distant Listening #6) - Comments (2)
- Distant Listening (5): The Sweet Authority of The 1910 Fruitgum Company’s “Simon Says” - Comments (0)
- Distant Listening (4): Veruca Salt’s Existential “Seether”/Or - Comments (0)
- Distant Listening (3): The Dialectics of Jonathan Richman’s “My Jeans” - Comments (1)
- Distant Listening (2): The Real Cheat in Mary Wells’ “Two Lovers” - Comments (0)
- Distant Listening (1): The Laid-Back Labor of Starbuck’s “Moonlight Feels Right” - Comments (0)
Economic Crisis
- The Paradox of Thrifting: Life Among the New Deal Ruins - Comments (0)
- Homage to Catatonia: Orwell and Today’s Housing-Bust Losers - Comments (1)
- Nothin’ for Money: On the Possibility of Weimar America - Comments (0)
- Unmitigated Gaul: French Riots and the State of Exception - Comments (0)
- Great Leap Forward: Cultivating China’s Consumer Class - Comments (0)
- The Empire Strikes Back: Immigration Breeds Right-Wing Resurgence in the British Isles - Comments (1)
- Serfin’ USA: The Taxpayer as Ignorant Ingrate - Comments (1)
- Sol Invictus: From Boom to Doom in the American Southwest - Comments (0)
- "Recovery Summer"–time Blues: Wage Deflation and Peak Opportunity - Comments (0)
- The Revolution Will Not Be Amortized: Deleveraging the New Age of Populist Rage - Comments (1)
Economy
- All That Glitters: The Fool’s Gold of Future Employment - Comments (1)
- Natural’s Not in It: Neoliberalism and the Privatization of the Wild - Comments (0)
- Don’t Box Me In: On Belonging to Belongings - Comments (1)
- Class Struggle: Corporatized Higher Education and Symbolic Power - Comments (4)
- Static Airplane Jive: The Bliss of Volcanically Induced Travel Paralysis - Comments (0)
- Compound Fracture: Student-Loan Debt Relief Reserved for Millennials - Comments (1)
- You Forgot It in People: The Enduring Allure of The Tragedy of the Commons - Comments (1)
- Degrees of Desperation: University Education and Human Capital - Comments (1)
- Limited Inc.: A Jobless Future and the Narcissist Economy - Comments (1)
- Abiding Interest: Utopian Visions and the Mortgaged Future - Comments (0)
Featured
- Quakes and Ale (A Piece for The New Inquiry) - Comments (0)
- Transcendental Synthesizers: “Subdivisions” by Rush (Distant Listening #7) - Comments (0)
- The Paradox of Thrifting: Life Among the New Deal Ruins - Comments (0)
- Desiring-Machines: Personal Communication Devices and Virtual Bureaucracy - Comments (1)
- Master Signifiers: Lacan, L. Ron, and Graduate School - Comments (2)
Generation Y
- Millennial Tension: The Generation-Y Work Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism - Comments (6)
- The Looks Have It: Social Media and Pathological Narcissism - Comments (3)
- Crummy Day Real Estate: Williamsburg's Demise Leads to Hipster Diaspora - Comments (0)
- Their Vegetable Love: Zombie Banks and the Advent of Japan's "Herbivore Men" - Comments (2)
- Containing Multitudes: Annie Finch on Facebook and the New Poetry Community - Comments (3)
- Boho Meets Hobo: Hipsters Hit Hard in “Youth Magnet” Cities - Comments (0)
- Bubble Baron: Mirrorplay - Comments (0)
- H8 When It’s 2 L8 2 S8 Ur Urge 2 4nic8: Hipster Carles’s Libidinal Runoff - Comments (1)
- The Twitter End - Comments (1)
- Recession Regression - Comments (0)
Reviews
- Playing Snooki: A Review of A Shore Thing - Comments (3)
- Flea-Market Ideology: A Review of What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption - Comments (5)
- The Uncommercial Traveler: A Review of Helen Rappaport’s Conspirator: Lenin in Exile - Comments (4)
- Split Definitive: A Review of Slavoj Žižek’s The Parallax View - Comments (2)
- Mirror Moves: A Review of Rob Walker’s Buying In - Comments (2)
Uncategorized
- Holiday Hiatus - Comments (0)
- Special Announcement: Double the Bubble with Marginal Utility's Rob Horning - Comments (0)
- Bubble Living: McMansion Expansion Down Under - Comments (0)
- The Two Towers - Comments (0)
- The Confidence-Man - Comments (0)
