Madeline Lane-McKinley is a writer, editor, and cultural critic based in Portland, Oregon. Her books include Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times, Solidarity with Children: An Essay Against Adult Supremacy, and Fag/Hag. She is also an editor for Blind Field: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry, a contributor to the Museum of Capitalism. Her writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Boston Review, The New Inquiry, Protean Magazine, and elsewhere.

Sean O'Brien is a writer and educator based in Canada and the United Kingdom. He is lecturer in the department of English at the University of Bristol. His research has appeared in Cultural Critique, Discourse, Polygraph, Science Fiction Studies, Crossings, and the Bloomsbury Companion to Marx.

Annie McClanahan is an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Irvine. She writes about US popular culture, political economy, and contemporary capitalism and is the author of Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.

Introduction by Madeline Lane-McKinley and Sean O'Brien

I: Excavations

1. 'Mobster Politics' by Fernando Esquivel-Suarez

2. 'Girl Power' by Isabel Bartholomew

3. 'The Moment of New Queer Cinema' by Philip Longo and Octavio R. González

II: The Post-'60s

4. 'It's not linear!' by Shama Rangwala

5. 'The Good Life 2.0' by Sean O'Brien

6. 'High School TV and the New Class' by Sam H Samore

III: Foreclosures

7. 'On Waste and Limitlessness' by Jacob Miller

8. 'welcome to fucktown' by Sam Weselowski

IV: The Long '90s

9. 'The Single Career Girl and the Diversity Friend' by Anna Zalokostas

10. 'Cultural Jetlag' by Alya Ansari

11. 'The Return of the Erotic Thriller' by Madeline Lane-McKinley

V: Reckonings

12. 'Revenge of the 'Super Predators'' by Austin McCoy

13. 'Black Bloc Epoch' by Vienna

14. 'Siren Song' by Eva Graham

Afterword by Annie McClanahan

Acknowledgments