Books
My teaching helps my students harness tools and techniques for questioning the developments that overwhelm daily life today—everything from conspiracy culture to cultural theory, from social media and reality television to philosophies of power. These same tools and topics motivate my research, which focuses on neoliberalism and starts from the position that neoliberal ideologies shape American daily life, including the way people understand each other and themselves.
In Neoliberal Culture, I analyze the way neoliberalism shaped daily life in the United States from the end of the Cold War to the Great Recession—analyzing everything from Las Vegas architecture to Oprah’s Book Club to the Iraq War. In White Power and American Neoliberal Culture, my co-author Edward Chan and I look at the way American neoliberal culture has been supercharged by white supremacist violence.
In the face of overwhelming subjects like these, it’s important to find alternatives to isolation and competition. So I also co-edited Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature to show that opposition to inequality starts with a vision of an alternative life based in practices of solidarity and cooperation.
In Neoliberal Culture, I analyze the way neoliberalism shaped daily life in the United States from the end of the Cold War to the Great Recession—analyzing everything from Las Vegas architecture to Oprah’s Book Club to the Iraq War. In White Power and American Neoliberal Culture, my co-author Edward Chan and I look at the way American neoliberal culture has been supercharged by white supremacist violence.
In the face of overwhelming subjects like these, it’s important to find alternatives to isolation and competition. So I also co-edited Race and Utopian Desire in American Literature to show that opposition to inequality starts with a vision of an alternative life based in practices of solidarity and cooperation.