ISBN:
9781461637134
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (271 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Culture and Politics Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.235/0973
Keywords:
Young consumers - United States
Abstract:
This collection takes its inspiration from Paul Goodman's Growing Up Absurd, a landmark critique of American culture at the end of the 1950s. The contributors to this volume focus on adverse social conditions that confront young people in postmodernity, such as the relentless pressure to consume, social dis-investment in education, harsh responses to youth crime, and the continuing climate of intolerance that falls heavily on the young. In essays on education, youth crime, counseling, protest movements, fiction, identity-formation and popular culture, the contributors look for moments of resistance to the subsumption of youth culture under the logic of global capitalism.
Abstract:
Intro -- CULTURE AND POLITICS SERIES GENERAL EDITOR: HENRY A. GIROUX, PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 - Introduction: What's Left of Modernity? -- SUBVERSIVE CONSUMPTION AND HYPERCONFORMITY -- NEOLIBERALISM AND LABOR -- CONSUMERS AND CRIMINALS -- INTERPELLATION AND SUBJECTIVITY -- CONSUMERISM, FEMINISM, HYPERMASCULINITY -- COUNTERCULTURE AND 1968 -- WHAT'S LEFT OF MODERNITY? -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 2 - "A Caste, a Culture, a Market": Youth, Marketing, and Lifestyle in Postwar America -- YOUTH IN THE JAZZ AGE -- THE TEENAGE MARKET -- THE ETHIC OF FUN -- THE LAST MERCHANDISING FRONTIER -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 3 - The War on the Young: Corporate Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of "Zero Tolerance" -- THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN SCHOOLING -- TOWARD A RADICAL EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 4 - Richard Price and the Ordeal of the Postmodern City -- YOUTH AND THE CITY: MIRRORS OF ALIENATION -- STRIKE: POSTMODERN RAGGED DICK -- THE NEW AMERICAN GHETTO AND THE OBSOLESCENCE OF THE BLACK POOR -- "A NEW LIFE" -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 5 - "Remorseless Young Predators": The Bottom Line of "Caging Children" -- WHO IS SAVED? -- HUGGING THE JUVENILE "TERRORIST" -- "NOWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD" -- SOME QUESTIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 6 - Growing Up Incarcerated: The Prison-Industrial Complex and Literacy as Resistance -- MY STUDY -- CENSORSHIP AND LITERACY -- CONSEQUENCES OF LITERACY -- THE NOTION OF THE SUPERPREDATOR AND THE PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX -- RESISTANCE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 7 - Ideology and Interpellation in the First-Person Shooter -- GAME THEORY -- THE QUICK AND THE DEAD -- POSTHUMAN INTERACTIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- 8 - Trouble Child: Barthes's Imagined Youth -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.
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