Henry A. Giroux holds the Waterbury Chair Professorship and is currently the Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Penn State University. The presentation addresses how Fight Club functions as a public pedagogy to mediate the tension between social criticism as a rejection of consumerism, on the one hand, and the privatization of agency that locates violence as the privileged vehicle for male community and solidarity on the other. Fight Club is taken up as a dystopian allegory that mimics the logic of neoliberalism in its attempt to undue the possibilities for translating private worries into public concerns or individual discontent into collective struggles.
Dystopia is conjured up in a political culture that is masculinist, fascistic, and militaristic.
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