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No. 10 ~ The Folklore of CapitalismBUY ISSUE
An issue dedicated to business culture that features Matt Roth’s classic essay on Amway and how he happened to sign up for it. Elsewhere: Thomas Frank reads Babbitt. Tom Vanderbilt marvels at the ubiquity of branding. Nelson Smith provides a history of security alarms. Chris Lehmann pops the culture bubble. Kim Phillips-Fein looks at the urban poverty initiative Bridges-to-Work. Mike Newirth remarks bitterly on the urban gentrification initiative known as Wicker Park. Stephen Duncombe questions why history books written by establishmentarians focus on underdogs. Seth Sanders reviews records, including Atari Teenage Riot’s first compilation and Wu Tang Forever. Fall 1997. 128 pages.
Table of Contents
Salvos
- The Literary Vaudeville Pepper Callicles (pseud.), Owen Hatteras (pseud.), Tom Vanderbilt
- Zoned Bohemian Mike Newirth
- Remainder Table: Pamela Moore Plus Forty Robert Nedelkoff
- Cordon Sanitaire Seth Sanders
- See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me, Accumulate Me Thomas Goetz
- You’re Either On the Bus… Kim Phillips-Fein
- Boom Crash Opera Chris Lehmann
- Dreams Incorporated Matt Roth
- I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill Stephen Duncombe
- A Partial History of Alarms Nelson Smith
- The Gaudy and Damned Tom Vanderbilt
- A Question of Size Doug Henwood
- Babbitt Rex Thomas Frank