Title: Commodify your dissent
Description: A series of essays on consumerism, corporations and marketing in the culture of late twentieth-century America.  Targets of these snarky and often smart "salvos" include malls, exurbs, business books, and record labels (remember those?).  The co-opting of grunge (remember that?) is critiqued in loving detail.  More serious pieces address the rise of the Internet as a commercial force, and question how we should think about work in an age of digitization.
Subjects: Civilization, Wealth, Consumers, Corporations, Popular culture, Generation X, Advertising, History, Industries, social aspects, Subculture, Popular culture, united states, Consumers, united states, Social aspects
Places: America, California, cities, suburbs, exurbs
Time periods: late 1990s