Arrested Development : Pop Culture and the Erosion of Adulthood.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- Introduction Safe -- Safety: the ultimate high -- Forever young -- Arrested development -- Impasse -- The end of ideology and the cult of the loser -- We know what's good for you -- New power generation -- 'Clinton-lite' and British victim culture -- Harvey, Gallagher and the Ecstasy debate -- Interactivity -- How can we grow up? -- Low expectations -- Retreatism -- Notes -- Chapter 1 Alienation -- New notion/new style -- The birth of the cool -- Alien nation goes pop -- Snapshot: I wanna be a Mod -- Snapshot: Proto-punk -- We're all alienated now -- Political as well as personal -- The end of politics? -- The uncommitted -- Snapshot: Renouncing alienation -- Positive and negative -- Powerlessness -- Arrested development -- Destructive alienation -- Suspicious minds -- Fear and loathing -- The stillbirth of the cool -- The lost cause of the rebel -- Alienation and the new establishment -- Notes -- Chapter 2 Now -- Senses over intellect -- Repressive rationality -- Holy nonsense -- Authentic and immediate -- Snapshot: Who needs objectivity? -- The moment is now -- Snapshot: On the One -- Movement and the moment -- The politics of now -- The narrowness of now -- Snapshot: Off the One -- Captivated by the moment -- Ego death -- Notes -- Chapter 3 The Child -- Stars of the nursery -- The child as rebel -- Children's crusade -- Infantilization -- Radical children -- Playpower -- The search for innocence -- Abdication -- Absurd -- The ubiquitous child -- Retreating to the child -- Dissatisfaction -- Submission -- Contemporary diagnoses of Peter-Pan-itis -- The prevention of adult interaction -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Vulnerable -- Damaged but beautiful -- Encounter culture -- Therapeutic radicalism -- Snapshot: Electric crucifixion -- Miserabilism -- Autopathology.

Snapshot: Hunched -- The vulnerable politician -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Madness -- 'Embryonic storm-trooper' -- Neurotica -- The fad for mad -- 'Schizoid subterfuges' -- Snapshot: Marxism, tendency Harpo -- Taking over the asylum -- Disbelief as a form of authority -- The familiar imbecile -- Snapshot: On the edge -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Spirit -- Self-love -- Beautiful losers -- Submission -- Communal degradation -- DIY spirituality -- Stale spirits -- Inactivity -- Inactive activity -- Manipulation -- Surrender -- Representing inadequacy -- Notes -- Chapter 7 Irony -- The absurd -- The ironic condition -- Swinging camp -- Black camp -- Shrinking subjectivity -- Shock to schlock -- Snapshot: Radical? -- Anti-ironists -- Snapshot: Showing off -- Snapshot: Intellectual slumming -- Self-preservation/self-destruction -- Snapshot: Ironic circles -- Ironic humanism? -- Spiralling irony/subsiding subjectivity -- Snob irony -- Consuming irony -- Spontaneously reproducing -- Notes -- Chapter 8 Wiggas -- Black therapy for whites -- Roots -- Mythologies -- Smothered subjectivity -- Crow Jim -- Snapshot: Who's fooling whom? -- Snapshot: Anthropology -- Different drums -- Notes -- Chapter 9 Limits -- Rebellion as limitation -- Overwhelmed -- Power, no thanks -- Limited terrain -- Radical quietism -- Alienation as limitation -- Diminishing dissent -- The 'incidental' revolution -- Middle-class myopia -- The prison of the self -- Radical retreat -- Escape into style -- Unlimited snobbery -- Snapshot: Snob -- Social work -- The therapeutic state -- Notes -- Chapter 10 The End of Adulthood? -- We're all victims now -- Top persona -- Pre-adult -- Power and the image of powerlessness -- Victims at work -- Emotional appeal -- Children's rights? - wrong -- Short trousers -- Excommunication -- Beyond left and right -- After the gap -- Politics as subculture.

New-time religion -- New adulthood? -- Notes -- Index.

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