Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Marxists.org. http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/benjamin.htm.
Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. New York: Ig Publishing, 1928.
Bernstein, Paul. Workplace Democratization: Its Internal Dynamics. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Books, 1976.
Berry, Wendell. The Unsettling of America. San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1977.
———. The Way of Ignorance. Washington, D.C.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
Boorstin, Daniel J. The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. New York: Atheneum, 1961.
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Del Rey, 1996.
Bradley, James. Flags of Our Fathers. New York: Bantam, 2000.
Briggs, Asa, and Peter Burke. A Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. Cambridge: Polity, 2005.
“Canada’s Shame.” The National. Canadian Broadcasting Company. May 24, 2006.
Cantor, Paul A. “Pro Wrestling and the End of History.” The Weekly Standard 5:3 (Oct. 4, 1999): 17-22.
Chamberlin, Jamie. “Reaching ‘Flow’ to Optimize Work and Play.” American Psychological Association Monitor 29:7 (July 1998). http://www.apa.org/monitor/ju198/joy.html.
Cochran, Chris. “The Production of Cultural Difference: Paradigm Enforcement in Cultural Psychology.” Psychology at Berkeley 1 (Spring 2008): 62-73.
Colvin, Randall, and Jack Block. “Do Positive Illusions Foster Mental Health? An Examination of the Taylor and Brown Formulation.” Psychological Bulletin 116:. 1: 3-20.
Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness. London: Penguin, 1902.
Cooper, Marc. The Last Honest Place in America: Paradise and Perdition in the New Las Vegas. New York: Nation, 2004.
Crane, Richard Teller. The Utility of all Kinds of Higher Schooling. Chicago: H. O. Shepard, 1909.
Csikszentmihály, Mihály. “Brain Channels Thinker of the Year Award: 2000: Mihály Csikszentmihály, ‘Flow Theory.’” Brain Channels. Accessed April 5, 2009. http://www.brainchannels.com/thinker/mihaly.html
D’Ambrosio, Antonino. A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears. New York: Nation Books, 2009.
De Botton, Alain. Status Anxiety. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
DeMott, Benjamin. Junk Politics. New York: Nation, 2003.
Deresiewicz, William. “The Disadvantages of an Elite Education.” The American Scholar (Summer 2008). http://www.theamericanscholar.org/the-disadvantages-of-an-elite-education.
———. “The End of Solitude.” The Chronicle of Higher Education 55:21 (Jan. 30, 2009). http://wwww.chronicle.com/free/v55/i21/21b00601.htm.
Diamond, Jared. Collapse. New York: Penguin, 2005.
Dines, Gail. “The White Man’s Burden: Gonzo Pornography and the Construction of Black Masculinity.” Yale Journal of Law and Feminism 18 (2006): 283-297.
“The Directors.” Adult Video News (August 2005): 54.
Donoghue, Frank. The Last Professors: The Corporate University and the Fate of the Humanities. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.
Dworkin, Andrea. Pornogrpahy: Men Possessing Women. New York: Plume, 1979.
Eakin, Emily. “Greeting Big Brother with Open Arms.” New York Times (Jan . 17, 2004): B9+.
Eco, Umberto. Travels in Hyperreality. New York: Harcourt, 1983.
Eggers, Dave. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. New York: Vintage, 2000.
Ellul, Jacques. Propaganda: The Formation of Men’s Attitudes. New York: Vintage, 1965.
Fromm, Erich. Escape From Freedom. New York: Henry Holt, 1941.
Fulbright, William J. The Pentagon Propaganda Machine. New York: Vintage, 1985.
Füredi, Frank. Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?: Confronting 21st Century Philistinism. London: Continuum, 2004.
Gabler, Neal. Life: The Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality. New York: Vintage, 1998.
Gag Factor. http://www.gagfactor.com/gagfactordotcom.html.
Gates, Jeff. Democracy At Risk: Rescuing Main Street from Wall Street. Cambridge: Perseus Publishing, 2000.
Golden, Daniel. The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates. New York: Random House, 2006.
González, Roberto. “Brave New Workplace: Cooperation, Control, and the New Industrial Relations.” In Nader, Laura, et al., Controlling Processes: Selected Essays, 1994-2005. The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, 92/93 (2005): 107-127.
Grossman, Vasily. Life and Fate. Trans. Robert Chandler. New York: Harper and Row, 1985.
Gyrna, Frank M., Jr. Quality Circles: A Team Approach to Problem Solving. New York: American Management Associations, 1981.
Hedges, Chris. American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America . New York: Free Press, 2006.
Held, Barbara S. The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2002.
———. “Tyranny of the Positive Attitude in America: Observation and Speculation.” Journal of Clinical Psychology 58: 965-991.
Herrick, Neal Q. Joint Management and Employee Participation: Labor and Management at the Crossroads. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1990.
Hoggart, Richard. The Uses of Literacy. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1998.
Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. London: Triad Grafton, 1932.
Jensen, Robert. Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity. Cambridge, Mass.: South End, 2007.
Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
Johnston, David Cay. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (And Stick You With the Bill). New York: Penguin, 2007.
Kamata, Satoshi. Japan in the Passing Lane: An Insider’s Account of Life in a Japanese Auto Factory. Tatsuru Akimoto, ed. and trans. New York: Pantheon, 1982.
Keller, Josh. “For Berkeley’s Sports Endowment, a Goal of $1 Billion.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Jan. 23, 2009. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i20/20a01301.htm.
Kindleberger, Charles P., and Robert Aliber. Manias, Panics, and Crashes. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
Kirp, David L. Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Korten, David C. When Corporations Rule the World. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler, 1995.
Lazarus, Richard S. “The Lazarus Manifesto for Positive Psychology and Psychology in General.” Psychological Inquiry, 14:2 (2003): 173-189.
Lippmann, Walter. Public Opinion. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Lubben, Shelley, and Jersey Jaxin. “Jersey Jaxin on Why She Quit Porn.” YouTube. Accessed Aug. 12, 2007. Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACLK5ccKfM.
———. Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1NObcJV8r0&feature=related.
Lugo, Alejandro. 1990. “Cultural Production and Reproduction in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico: Tropes at Play among Maquiladora Workers.” Cultural Anthropology. 5:2 (1990): 173-196.
MacArthur, John R. You Can’t Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. New York: Melville House, 2008.
MacKay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. New York: BN Publishing, 2008.
Mellman, Seymour. The Permanent War Economy: American Capitalism in Decline. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Mills, C. Wright. The Power Elite. New York: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Nader, Laura. “Controlling Processes: Tracing the Dynamic Components of Power.” Mintz Lecture. Current Anthropology, 38:5 (1997): 711-737.
———. “Harmony Coerced is Freedom Denied.” The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 13, 2001: 613-616
———. Harmony Ideology. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 1990.
———. Personal communication with Chris Hedges. Feb. 27, 2009.
Nader, Laura, and Ugo Mattei. Plunder: When the Rule of Law Is Illegal. Hoboken, N.J.: Blackwell Publishers, 2008.
Newport, Cal. How to Win at College. New York: Broadway, 2005.
“The New Industrial Relations.” Business Week 2687 (May 11, 1981): 84-89.
Noble, David. America by Design. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Ofshe, R., and Margaret T. Singer. “Attacks on Peripheral versus Central Elements of Self and the Impact of Thought Reforming Techniques.” Cultic Studies. Journal, 3:1 (1986): 3-24.
Ortega y Gasset, José. The Revolt of the Masses. New York: W. W. Norton, 1932.
Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Signet, 1990.
———. The Collected Letters, Essays and Journalism of George Orwell. Vol, 4: In Front of Your Nose, 1945-1950. Eds. Sonia B. Orwell and Ian Angus. Boston: David R. Godine, 2000.
Ozaki, Robert S. Human Capitalism: The Japanese Enterprise System as World Model. Tokyo: Kodansha International, 1991.
Parker, Mike. Inside the Circle: A Union Guide to QWL. Boston: South End, 1985.
Peterson, C. “The Future of Optimism.” American Psychologist 55 (January 2000): 44-55.
Plato. The Republic. Translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Polanyi, Karl. The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time. Boston: Beacon Press, 1944.
Postman, Neil. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Penguin, 1985.
Riesman, David. The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character . New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1950.
Rojek, Chris. Celebrity. London: Reaktion Books, 2001.
Roth, Joseph. The Emperor’s Tomb. New York: Overlook Press, 2002
Saul, John Ralston. The Unconscious Civilization. New York: Free Press, 1995.
———. Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. New York: Vintage, 1992.
Schmitt, Eric. “Pentagon Managers Find ‘Quality Time’ on a Brainstorming Retreat.” New York Times (Jan. 11, 1994): A7.
Schurmann, Reiner, ed. The Public Realm: Essays on Discursive Types in Political Philosophy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
Schwartz, Charles. Home page. http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~schwrtz.
Schwartz, Charles. “Good Morning, Regents.” UniversityProbe.org. http://universityprobe.org/2009/02/good-morning-regents.
Seligman, Martin. Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment. New York: Free Press, 2002.
Simon, Scott, host. “Promoting Healthcare for the Porn Industry.” Weekend Edition. National Public Radio. Dec. 8, 2007. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17044239.
Snow, C. P. The Two Cultures. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Soares, Joseph A. The Power of Privilege: Yale and America’s Elite Colleges. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007.
Stoller, Robert J., and I. S. Levine. Coming Attractions: The Making of an X-Rated Video.. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1993.
Taylor, S. E. “Adjustment to threatening events: A theory of cognitive adaptation.” American Psychologist 38 (1983): 1161-1173.
Thompson, P. C. “U.S. Offered Unusual Class on Diversity.” New York Times (April 2, 1995): 34.
Ting, Charles. “The Dormitories at U.C. Berkeley.” In Nader, Laura, et al., Controlling Processes: Selected Essays, 1994-2005. The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers 92/93 (2005): 197-229.
Wall, J. Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburgh: University Of Pittsburgh Press, 1989.
Wallace, David Foster. Consider the Lobster. New York: Back Bay, 2006.
Whyte, William H. The Organization Man. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1956.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961.
Wolin, Sheldon S. Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008.
Index
Abbott, Jennifer
Abdul, Paula
Abu Ghraib
Achbar, Mark
Adorno, Theodor
Adult Industry Medical Healthcare Foundation
Adult Pay Per View
Adult Video News (AVN) Awards
Adult Video News (AVN) expo
Adult Video News (magazine)
Aerospace Industries Association (AIA)
Afghanistan
AIG
Amber (Survivor contestant)
America by Design (Noble)
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (Hedges)
American Idol (television show)
American Medical Association
American Psychiatric Association
American Psychological Association (APA)
The American Scholar (magazine)
America’s Next Top Model (television show)
Amusing Ourselves to Death (Postman)
Anadarko Petroleum
Andersen, Hans Christian
Anderson, Pamela
Anderson, Ray
Andover
Andrejevic, Mark
Anne, Lisa
Annual Positive Psychology Forum
Antitrust laws
AOL Time Warner
Appreciative Inquiry
Arendt, Hannah
Army War College, U.S.
Arnold, Matthew
AT&T Broadband
Auden, W. H.
Augustine, Saint
Austro-Hungarian Empire
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment (Seligman)
Authorization for Use of Military Force (congressional resolution)
Bacevich, Andrew
Bakan, Joel
Balkans
Balzac, Honoré
Banks
bailing out
collapse of
faltering
and Glass-Steagall Act
insolvent
leaders of
and looting of financial system
nationalizing
and poor
and Stewart
Banks, Russell
Barry (porn producer)
Batista (wrestler)
Bear Stearns
Bearer, Paul
Bellah, Robert N.
Ben-Shahar, Tal D.
Benjamin, Walter
Bernanke, Ben
Berry, Wendell
Bewitched (television show)
Biden, Joe
Big Brother (television show)
Big Show (wrestler)
Bigg Boss (television show)
Blackwater/Xe
Blade, Barrett
Blair, Dennis
Blanc, Mel
Blankfein, Lloyd
Blue, Ashley
Bluebird Films
Boeing
Boileau, Jay
Boorstin, Daniel
Born to Be Good: The Science of the Meaningful Life (Keltner)
Botton, Alain de
Bradbury, Ray
Bradley, Betty
Bradley, James
Bradley, John
Brave New World (Huxley)
Brint, Steven
British Petroleum (BP)
Brownmiller, Susan
Budden, Jackiey
Buddha
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S.
Bush, George H. W.
Bush, George W.
Business Week (magazine)
Buying the War (television documentary)
Byram, Amanda
California, University of, Berkeley
California, University of, Los Angeles
Calvin, John
Cambodia
Cameron, Kim
Campaigns. See Political candidates and leaders
Canada
Cantor, Paul A.
Carbon dioxide
Carnegie, Andrew
Cash, Johnny
Cassidy, Brent
Cassidy, Tyler
Cato Institute
Celebrity
and adoration and worship
and appearance and lifestyle
and Christian Right
and commodity culture
Eggers on
and emptiness and purposelessness in life
and fantasies of fame and success
and foibles and scandals
gossip
hunger for
and implosion
interviews and profiles
and love
Mills on
as mirror
and reality television
reporters
and revenge and triumph
and wealth
and wrestling
See also Celebrity culture; Corporations: and celebrities as sellers
Celebrity culture
and closeness to celebrities
and commodities
as culture of narcissism
and degradation as entertainment
Deresiewicz on
and escape and fantasy
and exhibitionism
and family
and fictional personas
and frustration and despair
hollowness of
and illusion
and immortality
and inauthenticity
and Internet
and isolation
and junk politics
and magical thinking
manipulation and deceit of
moral nihilism and void of
and personal screenplays
and politicians’ artificial intimacy with public
Roth on
and surveillance
and validation
Celebrity Driving School (television show)
Celebrity (Rojek)
Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes (television show)
Celebrity Weakest Link (television show)
Celebrity Wife Swap (television show)
Center for Representative Politics
Center for the Advancement of Women
Central Command, U.S.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Chaplin, Charlie
Cheney, Dick
China
Chomsky, Noam
Christian Broadcast Network