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We re-evaluate Christopher Lasch's hugely influential and prescient The Culture of Narcissism. What conjunctural factors led Lasch to his insights, and to what extent are those still present? Lasch wrote during the collapse of postwar Fordist-Keynesian model – is it the collapse of neoliberalism today that makes the book so evocative? And if narcissism has only increased, does the book suggest any political ways-out?
UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Excerpt: /188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger
/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
/185/ Discipline-Flourishing Democracy ft. Lee Jones
Excerpt: /184/ Reading Club: The European Coup
Excerpt: /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
Excerpt: /182/ Three Articles: Sporno-Vaxxo-Techno-Populism
/181/ Juche in North Britain? ft. Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
Excerpt: /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
/173/ Reading Club: Left Case for Brexit (UNLOCKED)
Excerpt: /178/ Reading Club: Societies of Control
Excerpt: /177/ AufheBonus Bonus ft. Catherine Liu
/176/ The Worst Class ft. Catherine Liu
Excerpt: /175/ Psychoanalysis Against Adaptation ft. Benjamin Fong
/174/ Social Ungluing ft. Benjamin Fong
Excerpt: /172/ Three Articles: Elite Production
Excerpt: /171/ Fukuyama & the End of History ft. Daniel Bessner
Excerpt: /170/ Reading Club: Streeck's Critical Encounters
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