Rockin' with Reagan, or the Mainstreaming of Postmodernity

Abstract

here is, in the United States today, a vague discomfort-if not an outright paranoia-about the new generations of youth, variously characterized as conservative, cynical, selfish, complacent, nihilistic, apolitical, and mean. Brett Easton Ellis, author of Less Than Zero2 (one of the more chilling representations of this new generation), offers a vision in which conservativism has not only engulfed his beloved aesthetic and political refuge-Bennington-but also his own ability to resist: I'm staying at Bennington ... because even though it is

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