Dregs of an Epoch

Or: Misc. abysmal & annoying stuff from the 1990s (a partial inventory)

• "the End of History"
• "The Contract With America"
• Camille Paglia
• globalism & its cheerleaders
• the Kate Moss paradigm shift
• cyber theory
• pretty much every stripe of academic crit theory, really
• anything having to do with O.J. Simpson
• font fetishist illegibility (e.g. Raygun magazine & co.)
• judgement-free pomo art criticism
• The publishing explosion of Management Lit. (e.g. Who Moved My Cheese?)
• "[insert name of city] is the next Seattle"
• candyman doctors putting everyone I knew on prozac
• Starbuck's ascendant
• "happy hardcore"
• dial-up internet
• "Lewinskygate"
• Dennis Rodman
• Matthew Barney
• the stfu over-ratedness of Quentin Tarantino
• the Telecom Act
• "Friends"
• identity politics
• anything "jiggy"