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	'Baffler' carves cynical trail of dissent in the '90s \| Feb 6, 1998
		Commodify Your Dissent compiles the shrewdest essays from The Baffler's first eight years, with selections ranging from a discussion of how the advertising industry constructed the Generation X phenomenon to a prediction of the death of the metropolis in the rapidly maturing Information Age.
		The Baffler's essayists are willing to risk sounding blustery and reductive if it will distinguish their writing from the crabbed diction of academic journals.
		Although Frank never explains what separates The Baffler from a "little talisman of rebellion" (it is, after all, a little, puckishly decorated, and rebellious response to consumer society's dross), his general point is a good one.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxv/2.6.98/ae/book.html (770 words)

	Tom Frank, "The Great Grunge Hoax," and The Baffler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Thomas Frank (Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1994) rose to prominence as editor of The Baffler, an influential journal of cultural criticism.
		Started in 1988 by Frank while he was an undergraduate at the University of Virginia, The Baffler moved with him to the University of Chicago as he pursued a doctorate in American History under Neil Harris.
		While The Baffler is famous for rekindling popular interest in the Frankfurt School, it is also often remembered as the journal which broke "The Great Grunge Hoax" story.
	instruct1.cit.cornell.edu /courses/hist100.96/elc/baffler.html (244 words)

	The Baffler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Baffler (founded 1988 by editor Thomas Frank) is a cultural-political criticism journal headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and sold at independent bookstores across the US.
		The magazine has always been published extremely sporadically (two issues were published in 1997, followed by two in 1999), especially after the Chicago office of the Baffler was destroyed in a fire on April 25, 2001 (see [1]).
		Boob Jubilee: The Cultural Politics of the New Economy (Salvos from The Baffler).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Baffler (218 words)

	About The Baffler Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		We would confront the pomposities of power in the most direct manner we knew, we would call it on its lies and burst the bubble of the moment, whether it was "alternative" culture or the liberating promise of the cyber-revolution.
		More importantly, The Baffler was our attempt to restore a sense of outrage and urgency to the literature of the Left and simultaneously to unmask the pretensions of the lifestyle liberals.
		But to describe The Baffler in terms of the books we read or the records we listened to or the writers we admired overlooks what was, until quite recently, the central, unassuagable fact that dictated the way we did things.
	www.thebaffler.com /about.html (1043 words)

	Winning Hearts, Los... :: Dissent Fall 2004 Issue
		But I returned to a campus where student activism was still dominated by identity politics and to classrooms in which my literature professors, arguing in the wake of the canon wars for their very lives, suggested that the classic texts were subversive because they had sent coded sexual messages to.
		The premise of the first Baffler collection was that, in much the same way as Western liberalism had reinvented itself in the face of the communist challenge, so business had changed in reaction to the sixties: all stances of rebellion were now highly profitable poses.
		The Baffler had never had time or inclination to formulate an actual aesthetic philosophy, so aside from its allegiance to eighties indie rock and the typeface and design lifted from H.L. Mencken's American Mercury, there didn't seem to be anything the Baffler actually admired.
	www.dissentmagazine.org /article/?article=329 (1439 words)

	New Zealand hoki fishermen to fit bird bafflers
		New Zealand hoki fishermen will have fitted Brady Bird Bafflers to their trawlers, if they are over 40 metres, by next May. This is an important move for the industry as there has been considerable opposition from conservation groups regarding the number of seabirds - particularly albatross and petrels - that are caught on longlines.
		Life is busy on a trawler; the baffler had to be something you could put out and forget, then bring in again with ease.
		Recent trials on deepwater trawlers have proved the baffler devices are simple to use and very effective in keeping seabirds away from the trawl wires.
	www.eurocbc.org /page584.html (646 words)

	THE HIGH HAT \| MARGINALIA: Boob Jubilee
		At the heart of The Baffler’s cultural critique is the growing influence of those pro-business, anti-regulation, invisible-hand nutsos who have spent the last 20 years slipping their poisonous philosophy into politics and American culture at large, co-opting subcultural movements and inventing strange new management techniques along the way.
		The Baffler is not on any regular publishing schedule (hey, neither is the High Hat), but the Baffler’s website keeps the public informed about updates and has a nifty mission statement, to boot.
		And The Baffler is still deflating their hot air and poking holes in their chicanery.
	www.thehighhat.com /Marginalia/003/baffler.html (907 words)

	Cobra goes back to its roots with its new King Cobra Baffler Utility Metals
		The King Cobra Baffler's patent pending design promotes the high launch trajectory, forgiveness and distance of a fairway metal with the playability and control of an iron, company officials said.
		The Men's and Senior Baffler Utility Metals are identified as 2/R (18 degrees), 3/R (20), 4/R (23) and 5/R (26), where the model number corresponds with the iron it is recommended to replace.
		The Baffler's body is constructed of 17-4 Stainless Steel, Harmet said, while a large face area features a thin 465 Maraging Stainless Steel face insert that offers an expanded sweet zone for maximum ball speed from all nine points across the club face.
	www.pga.com /equipment/equipment-showcase/cobra102804.cfm (498 words)

	The World of Golf 1-800-499-7491
		The King Cobra Baffler line currently is the number one selling line of utility metals at on-course retailers and has held this position for the past five months according to Golf Datatech.
		The new King Cobra Baffler Utility Metal is designed for golfers of all skill levels seeking to replace their long irons with more versatile and forgiving utility clubs that offer higher trajectory and longer distance.
		The Men's and Senior's Baffler Utility Metal lines consist of the new 1/R (16 degree loft), 2/R (18 degree loft), 3/R (20 degree loft), 4/R (23 degree loft), 5/R (26 degree loft) and the new 6/R (32 degree loft).
	www.theworldofgolf.com /pressrelease.asp?ID=134 (692 words)

	Salon \| Books: Commodify Your Dissent
		And so I understand how hard it must be to be an editor at the Baffler, the Chicago journal of cultural criticism that takes its pleasure (insofar as it takes any pleasure at all) in sneering at anything and everything that reeks of filthy lucre.
		The Baffler first gained attention back in 1992 with a ferocious assault on Gen-X stereotypes; the next year the journal took on the corporate co-optation of "alternative culture."
		Since then -- as the Baffler editors explain in the introduction to "Commodify Your Dissent," a collection of essays taken from the journal -- contributors have focused their ire on "business culture and the culture business," firing angry "salvos" at everyone from windy management consultant Tom Peters to Wired magazine.
	www.salon.com /books/sneaks/1997/11/12review.html (440 words)

	Commodify Your Dissent edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		Throughout its run, The Baffler has been a consistently engrossing and frequently persuasive journal of cultural criticism, loaded with a kind of edgy intelligence, far from the soi-disant "irreverence" of the day, that barely contains its anger.
		Too bad--the anthology suffers from its lack of outside contributors, and although the editors write of their determination to confront power "in the most direct manner," part of The Baffler's strength lies in its willingness to be indirect at times; its inclusion of subtly allusive commentaries that balance the frontal assault.
		But I still think that the best Baffler collection is any given issue of the magazine (which I recommend without hesitation): I gradually realized that I was reading an anthology that, for whatever reason, rarely probes issues of race, class, and poverty, of the epidemic inequity of the world.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/1997winter/baffler.shtml (411 words)

	Cult Movies: Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler - $10.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		- Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler - $10.95
		From the pages оf The Baffler, the most vital and perceptive new magazine of the nineties, sharp, sаtiriсаl broadsides against the Culture Trust.
		I'm not sure if The Baffler is still being рublishеd regularly and, if not, too bad because it was а small magazine that regularly published thoughtful аnd provocative essays of the old school (and I mean this in the best possible sense): they focused on the people and соnditiоns of cultural production rather than consumption.
	www.cultmoviesstore.com /tvr30333933333136373334.html (1027 words)

	PGATOUR.com - Cobra Golf updates Bafflers for 2005
		It was 1975 when Cobra introduced the original Baffler and many golfers took to the idea of a versatile utility club to help their games.
		The new King Cobra Baffler Utility Metals are available in four models each for men and for women, with numbers meant to represent irons they would replace.
		All the new Bafflers combine a contoured sole plate with low and back center of gravity to help players get the ball airborne from a variety of lies and turf conditions.
	www.golfweb.com /print/story/8092090 (1000 words)

	s m u g - back issues
		The Baffler, a Chicago-based zine masquerading as an academic journal, or vice-versa, succumbs to that on a regular basis, but in a spectacular fashion.
		But the real goal of The Baffler is to expose the ugly little creatures that control our culture, to explain what's really going on behind even the most trite pop phenomena, illuminating the complex web of backscratching and psychographics and idiocy and greed that makes up pretty much everything we consume.
		This is what The Baffler is trying to remedy, by bringing intelligent, critical thinking back out into the open and applying it even to such pop fare as advertising, music, fashion, et al.
	www.smug.com /25/3.html (1145 words)

	Cobra's new addition - PGATOUR.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Cobra, as you may recall, pioneered the Baffler utility wood not all that long ago.
		Versatility, however, will also allow the Baffler Multi-Metal to serve as a driving iron for mid to long par 3s, and for accuracy/control off the tee on par 4s and par 5s.
		Individually, it might be noted that higher handicap golfers may have a tougher time with the lower-lofted clubs, but that's a generality that's true across all types and models of clubs.
	www.golfweb.com /u/ce/multi/0,1977,2863816,00.html (972 words)

	After a long absence following a devastating fire, The Baffler (http://www
		While there are abundant images that come to mind to illustrate this tendency, the Gap Ads of the 1980s featuring the homosexual, drug addict and beat novelist William S. Burroughs should suffice.
		The first post-fire issue of The Baffler has an article on Frank Gehry that prompts me to say a few words about Bard College, where the architect's latest project is under construction.
		I am far more interested in expanding on some of the concerns raised in the Baffler article that have as much to do with power and money as they do with art.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/culture/gehry.htm (1820 words)

	Dusty Groove America - Baffler -- Recently Added
		Baffler 12, "Then Came Nylon" -- the gloomy red issue -- dishes out punishment to today's reigning academic and literary tastemakers.
		Written with the same verve and gusto that helped win the 1999 Pulitzer Prize in History for his and Edwin G. Burrows' Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898, A New Deal for New York is a stirring call-to-arms from the distinguished historian Mike Wallace.
		Baffler Thirteen commemorates thirty years of the crazy politics of the backlash by examining the deep history of right-wing populism.
	www.dustygroove.com /featured.php?cat=17 (553 words)

	Cobra Golf adds three new models to its King Cobra Baffler Utility Metal line
		Cobra Golf, whose original Baffler clubs were the first utility clubs on the market, has added two new men's models and one new women's model to the line.
		The original Baffler, launched in 1975, was the first utility metal in the retail marketplace, and the new Baffler Utility Metal is designed for golfers of all skill levels seeking to replace their long irons with more versatile and forgiving utility clubs that offer higher trajectory and longer distance.
		The current Baffler Utility Metals are offered in six iron replacement lofts in both men's and senior's models and five iron replacement lofts in women's models.
	www.pga.com /equipment/equipment-showcase/cobra122605.cfm (519 words)

	Bug Baffler - Insect Protective Clothing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		In 1988, out of desperation during one of the buggiest springs, the first Bug Baffler shirt was born.
		Being able to be outdoors gardening and walking was a priority: something effective against bug bites, without using insect repellants, a loose fitting, durable, light-weight, comfortable garment was needed.
		Bug Baffler was — and is — the answer.
	www.bugbaffler.com /story.htm (96 words)

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		However, when she teamed up with the NAFTA Baffler, the forces of evil began to reign, and the Fat Cat ascended to global dominance.
		History: In 1993, the NAFTA Baffler burst forth fully-formed from the head of Bill Clinton after a late-night rendezvous between the President, the Hegemon, the Corporate Claw, and a White House intern.
		The Baffler honed his considerable powers by throwing peasant farmers of the land in Mexico and shipping well-paid manufacturing jobs to maquiladoras in the border zone, where he was able to grow strong on a diet of raw sewage and toxic waste.
	www.yale.edu /starc/superheroes.html (3104 words)

	Comments on 7411 \| MetaFilter
		From their frontpage: "[W]e have no computers, no contact lists, no rolodexes, no desks, and no desk lamps." Those of you familiar with The Baffler, or their book Commodify Your Dissent, know that they are a great source for acute cultural criticism.
		The Baffler, the much-beloved journal of pop culture and its discontents, lost its offices and most of its archives in a fire that destroyed its building April 25.
		The cause of the fire is still unknown, but Lane says the Baffler was not insured and all computer backups were unfortunately kept onsite.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/7411 (916 words)

	Cobra extends Baffler range - GOLFmagic Equipment news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Building upon the early success of the Baffler Multi-Metal irons in the marketplace, Cobra announced the extension of Baffler Multi-Metal irons to include ladies' and seniors' models.
		Baffler Multi-Metal irons will now address wider yardage gaps, cover a broader range of course situations, and open more possibilities for set composition solutions for the progressive, distance-oriented and game improvement audience.
		Complementing the existing line of Baffler Multi-Metal irons, the new 26º and 28º models will be available in the marketplace from May 2001.
	www.golfmagic.com /news/article/mps/UAN/1643/SP/328449336216364995310/v/1 (1064 words)

	Consumer Counterculture - New York Times
		Frank, who is sort of young himself (he's 32), is the editor in chief of a small zine-like journal called The Baffler and also its most influential contributor.
		The Baffler has published exactly nine issues since its founding in 1988, but that has been enough to establish Frank as perhaps the most provocative young cultural critic of the moment, and certainly the most malcontent.
		His assumption, largely unexamined, is that society's most banal and ephemeral pop texts -- the cannily outrageous ads, the breathless trend stories, the recycled fashions and derivative rock bands -- hold the Big Meaning.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05EFD8143BF933A05752C1A961958260 (391 words)

	Amazon.com: Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler: Books: Thomas Frank,Matt Weiland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Boob Jubilee: The Mad Cultural Politics of the New Economy: Salvos from the Baffler by Thomas Frank
		If the closest historical parallel is with the Gilded Age and its all-powerful robber barons, Frank and his ilk clearly see themselves as the muckrakers out to expose the absurdities and abuses of big business.
		I'm not sure if The Baffler is still being published regularly and, if not, too bad because it was a small magazine that regularly published thoughtful and provocative essays of the old school (and I mean this in the best possible sense): they focused on the people and conditions of cultural production rather than consumption.
	www.amazon.com /Commodify-Your-Dissent-Salvos-Baffler/dp/0393316734 (1813 words)

	Amazon.de: Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler: English Books: Thomas Frank,Matt Weiland,Tom Frank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler (Taschenbuch)
		So rather than observing that the success of early 90's bands like Nirvana and Pearl Jam may have had a good deal to do with their musical talent and creativity, the Baffler team chooses to whine about how crummy those bands are in comparsion to the unsung heros of the "real" Seattle music scene.
		Frank and the rest of the Baffler crew have I think taken a good first step: they have gotten out of the universities.
	www.amazon.de /Commodify-Your-Dissent-Salvos-Baffler/dp/0393316734 (1281 words)

	Salon \| Letters to the editor
		While I agree that the Baffler can at times giddily conflate the broadcasted world with the actual one, I'd nevertheless maintain that the extent to which the counterculture of the '60s has been appropriated by business culture has been overwhelming, and I believe unprecedented, when you look at other bohemian-cum-political revolts in the American past.
		As Gary Kamiya so eloquently pointed out, they not only appear to lack any sense of historical perspective (when WAS popular culture anything other than superficial tripe?), but they never bother to leaven their endless, snotty complaints with anything like a suggestion for improving our degraded culture.
		The folks at the Baffler, on the other hand, seem to stand for absolutely nothing -- unless you count a handful of bands that none of us have ever heard of.
	archive.salon.com /letters/1997/12/23letters.html (1615 words)

	simpleton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Perhaps most important, the Baffler mission statement is not the stupidest thing I've read by a professional journalist in the past year.
		Scare quotes are verbal ice tongs, a signal that the phrase in question is a kind of alien organism which may carry a horrible virus, and which you wouldn't even be handling except that, for the good of humanity, you are obliged to expose its virulence.
		This BAFFLER was produced by its editors in the summer of 1998, without benefit of focus groups, town-hall meetings, phone polls, beeper studies, or, in fact, any input from the public at all.
	www.simpleton.com /19990304.html (1613 words)

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