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Episode 13: Bret Easton Ellis, The Shards, and the Gen-X Paracosm
In today’s episode, we read a preview of Bret Easton Ellis’s upcoming The Shards (available for pre-order here), followed by a discussion by psychologist Sam Austen about the rise of the ‘Gen-X Paracosm’ – the all-pervasive 1980s nostalgia that serves as a projective outlet for the frustrations and thwarted dreams of a creative class in the advanced stages of decline.
Will the alluring spectre of champagne days and cocaine nights help lift us – as is Ellis’s project – from an anomic, desexualized, and increasingly zero-sum social condition, or will the scrying-glass of Stranger Things, Dahmer, and Ellis’s latest novel explode in our face, totalize the neoliberal eclipse with a shower of blinding shards?
This episode is intended for feline consumption. Human-language translation available upon request.
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