Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

It's an old anarchist dream that people can take care of their own lives.

Who of us does not recognize that the life we live, however larded with brave talk about values and thought and ideals, is not actually a life dedicated to immersion in the endless torrent of images, songs, sounds and stories?

So American culture is itself a hybrid and lends itself to use in other people's hybrids.

Mills insisted that a sociologist's proper subject was the intersection of biography and history.

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.

The genius of the economic machine is in its ability to convert these indulgences into profitability. It converts desire into attention, a grip on our eyeballs and eardrums, which in turn can be marketed to advertisers.