Vince Carducci

About Vince Carducci

Vince Carducci reviews books for PopMatters and is currently completing a PhD dissertation on global consumerism and its discontents at the New School for Social Research in New York City.

Features

Culture

Confidence Games on Canal Street

[27.Jul.07] :. Consumers of counterfeit branded products may be dupes or they may be shrewd shoppers, but they are also communicators; people who demonstrate literacy in the meanings attached to certain symbols in the marketplace both of goods and ideas.

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Books

Work, the Sequel

[17.Jul.07] :. Most people don't have the luxury of choosing to bail from a high-paying job to live the stressed-out, pizza-scarfing life of a grad student.

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Reviews

Books

Confronting the New Conservatism by Michael J. Thompson [Editor]

[13.Aug.07] :. It makes for worthy if sometimes scary reading as the United States slouches toward the 2008 election.

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Books

Getting Loose by Sam Binkley

[26.Jun.07] :. Binkley does more than simply mark the transition from Yippy to yuppie.

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Books

Gamer Theory by McKenzie Wark

[5.Jun.07] :. Gamer Theory concerns itself with more than just the interpretation of video games; it's about gaming ambience -- that is, gamespace -- as the kinetic field within which game players exist.

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Books

Ecology Without Nature by Timothy Morton

[21.May.07] :. If we must forsake the Romantic idea of nature, we must similarly abandon its understanding of art as something to be held on high.

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Books

Profane Waste by Gretchen Craft Rubin and Dana Hoey

[20.Feb.07] :. What is the point of a self-indulgent celebration of waste, profane or otherwise, in this age of inconvenient truth, a time in which ecological sustainability is the single-most pressing issue facing the planet?

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Books   Steal This Music by Joanna Demers

Books   Games and Sport in Everyday Life by Robert Perinbanayagam

Books   The Central Liberal Truth by Lawrence E. Harrison

Books   The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Books   Sprawl: A Compact History by Robert Bruegmann

Books   Spice: the History of a Temptation by Jack Turner

Books   Consuming Kids: Protecting Our Children from the Onslaught of Marketing and Advertising by Susan Lin

Books   Illicit: How Smugglers, Traffickers, and Copycats Are Hijacking the Global Economy by Moisés Na

Books   Hot Property: The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization by Pat Choate

Books   Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion by Alexandra Palmer and Hazel Clark

DVDs   Plethora (2005) - PopMatters Film Review )

Books   Point of Purchase: How Shopping Changed American Culture by Sharon Zukin

DVDs   Yves Saint-Laurent: His Life and Times (2004)

Books   How Brands Become Icons: The Principles of Cultural Branding by Douglas B. Holt

Books   "Fear: Its Political Uses and Abuses", Social Research by Arien Mack

Books   A Hacker Manifesto by McKenzie Wark

Books   The Rise of Fashion: A Reader by Daniel Leonhard Purdy

Books   Fashion Under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt by Eugenia Paulicelli

Books   Consuming the American Landscape by John Ganis

Books   Red, White and Liberal: How Left is Right and Right is Wrong by Alan Colmes

Books   Rumsfeld: A Personal Portrait by Midge Dector

Books   The New Imperialism by David Harvey

Books   War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race by Edwin Black

Books   Off with their Heads: Traitors, Crooks and Obstructionists in American Politics, Media and Business

Books   A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America by Lizabeth Cohen

Books   Something for Nothing: Luck in America by Jackson Lears

 
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