Ep. 92: Austerity and Class Agony: Writing the Crisis w/ Adam Rensch

Joining us this week to talk about the politics of working class culture and the question of "Millennial Burnout" is Adam Rensch, co-host of the stop/rewind podcast and PhD Candidate in English Literature at UIC.

We open by discussing the cultural politics of the 1990s, then move into a comparison of a recent piece on so-called "Millennial Burnout" in Buzzfeed with Adam Rensch's treatment of the question of class, culture, and burnout. How will the exhaustion and despair wreaked by neoliberal capitalism be resolved? Tune in to find out.

-"Tycoons of Despair: Austerity, Aesthetics, and Sentimentality," https://brooklynrail.org/2017/05/field-notes/Tycoons-of-Despair-Austerity-Aesthetics-and-Sentimentality

-Anne Helen Peterson, "How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation," https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work

-Stop/Rewind Podcast: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/stop-rewind/id1434852449?mt=2

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