Everything, all the time, everywhere - Stuart Jeffries

But where do these ideas come from and how have they impacted on the
world? In his brilliant history of a dangerous idea, Stuart Jeffries
tells a narrative that starts in the early 1970s and continue to today.
He tells this history through a riotous gallery that includes, amongst
others:
David Bowie * the Ipod * Frederic Jameson * the demolition of
Pruit-Igoe * Madonna * Post-Fordism *
Jeff Koon's 'Rabbit' * Deleuze
and Guattari * the Nixon Shock * The Bowery series *
Judith Butler
* Las Vegas * Margaret Thatcher * Grand Master Flash * I Love Dick * the RAND Corporation * the Sex Pistols * Princess Diana * the Musee D'Orsay *
Grand Theft Auto* Perry Anderson * Netflix * 9/11

We are today scarcely capable of
conceiving politics as a communal activity because we have become
habituated to being consumers rather than citizens. Politicians treat us
as consumers to whom they must deliver. Can we do anything else than
suffer from buyer's remorse?