Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.
Abbey, Edward, 119
Abernethy, Graeme, The Iconography of Malcolm X, 152n39
Abu Ghraib, 13
Acosta, Oscar Zeta, 80, 82, 83, 85, 152n46
Adams, Randall, 95
Agee, James, Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, 10–11
Ahearn, Charlie, Wild Style, 18, 26, 28–29, 32, 34, 46
Allen, Irwin, 111–12
Allende, Salvador, 65
Apocalypse Now (Coppola), 58
Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 16, 17, 52
Ascher, Ivan, Portfolio Society, 44–45
Augustine, 6
autobiography, 9, 47, 137, 152n25. See also memoir
Autobiography of Malcolm X, The (Malcolm X and Haley), 19, 69, 70, 72–80, 84, 85, 152n25, 152n37, 152n39
Balk, Alfred, 77
Balsom, Erika, 23
Bambaataa, Afrika, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 33
bandele, asha, When They Call You a Terrorist, 104
“Battle of Aspen, The” (Thompson), 80–82
Battle of Chile, The (Guzmán), 65–66
Beastie Boys, 35
Beatles, the, 83
Beattie, Keith, Dont Look Back, 27
Beauty of a Social Problem, The (Michaels), 103–4
Bechdel, Alison, 20, 32; Fun Home, 136
Beckett, Samuel, 55
Benjamin, Walter, “The Author as Producer,” 10
Berlant, Lauren, Cruel Optimism, 78
Big Short, The (McKay), 5–6
“Black Merchants of Hate” (Balk and Haley), 77
Blade Runner (Scott), 16
Blaze, Jess, 44
Blondie, 36
Blue Nights (Didion), 131
Bluets (Nelson), 139–40
Boetticher, Budd, 55
Bourdain, Anthony, 6
Bourke-White, Margaret, 11
Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, The (Rosler), 22–23
Boyle, Kay, 148n36
Bradley, Adam, Book of Rhymes, 31–32, 151n3
Brouillette, Sarah, Literature and the Creative Economy, 18
Brown, Danny, “Side B (Dope Song),” 39
Brown, Wendy, “The End of Educated Democracy,” 70–71
Brown Power, 82
Buchloh, Benjamin, “Hans Haacke,” 61, 63
Buell, Lawrence, “Toxic Discourse,” 112–13
Buffett, Warren, letter to shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., 7
Bugliosi, Vincent, Helter Skelter, 88–89
Buñuel, Luis, 10
Burroughs, Augusten, 128
Burroughs, William S., 55
Burtynsky, Edward, 17
Busy Bee Starski, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 28, 36–37, 37
Cafaro, Philip, “Rachel Carson’s Environmental Ethics,” 110
Campt, Tina M., Listening to Images, 14
Capote, Truman, In Cold Blood, 17, 87
Carson, Rachel, 19, 107–20, 122, 124–25, 155n11; The Sea Around Us, 110, 111, 113, 119, 155n10; Silent Spring, 19, 107–19, 124–25; Under the Sea-Wind, 110, 113, 119
Céline, 49–50
Chakrabarty, Dipesh, “The Climate of History,” 124
Chang, Jeff, Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop, 30
Chile, 65–67
Chile, Obstinate Memory (Guzmán), 65–66, 67
Chute, Hillary, Disaster Drawn, 32
cinéma verité, 7, 8, 15, 26–27
Clay, Cassius, 73
climate change, 20, 107–10, 112, 124–25, 127
Clover, Joshua, “Baltimore Riot. Baltimore Commune?,” 148n32; 1989, 30; Riot Strike Riot, 106–7
Codinha, Alessandra, 49–50
Coles, Robert, Doing Documentary Work, 11
comics, 1–4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 25–26, 32–38, 46, 136–37
Communist Manifesto, The (Marx), 115
conceptual art, 7, 11, 13, 15, 25–26, 47–48, 61–65, 105–6
Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness, 58
Cooper, Melinda, Family Values, 89
Coppola, Francis Ford, 58; Apocalypse Now, 58
Corporation, The, 88
counterculture, 47, 48–49, 53–56, 70–71, 80–85
creative writing, 13
crime, 19, 42–43, 86–104, 140–41, 144
Crimp, Douglas, “The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism,” 25
Dear Erin Hart (Lovell), 140–41, 141, 142
Decoded (Jay-Z), 19, 68–70, 151n4
DeKoven, Marianne, Utopia Limited, 83
Deng, Valentino Achak, 132
de Saussure, Ferdinand, Course in General Linguistics, 71
Deutsche, Rosalyn, “Property Values,” 63, 65
Deutsche Bank, 6
“Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix)” (West and Jay-Z), 68
Diary of a Teenage Girl, The (Gloeckner), 136–37
Dickinson, Emily, 69
Didion, Joan, 9, 17, 19, 20, 48–61, 67; Blue Nights, 131; “Insider Baseball,” 58; “On the Morning after the Sixties,” 60; Salvador, 56–60; Slouching Towards Bethlehem, 53–55, 86–88; “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” 86–88; “The White Album,” 48–49, 50; The Year of Magical Thinking, 130–31
Dirty John (podcast), 87
Dispatches (Herr), 21–22, 25, 26, 149n8
documentary: as aesthetic, 3–4, 5, 6–10, 11–13, 15, 18, 20, 21–24, 25, 46, 47–48, 50–51, 85, 96–97, 103, 105–7, 114, 127–30, 144–45; across media, 5, 6–7, 8, 10, 11–13, 15, 23–24, 25–26, 36–39, 46, 47–48, 90, 144–45, 148n18; and music, 26–46; as speculative, 107–25, 127
Dont Look Back (Pennebaker), 18, 26–28, 29, 46
Doors, the, 48
Do the Right Thing (Lee), 29
Double Indemnity, 86–87
Dunaway, Finis, Seeing Green, 115
Dunne Michael, Quintana Roo, 50, 130
Durst, Robert, 96
E-40, 42
Eat Pray Love (Gilbert), 128, 129
Eazy-E, 36
ecocriticism, 112
ecology, 105–25
Eggers, Dave, 20, 129, 131–35, 137; A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, 132, 134; A Hologram for the King, 134–35; What Is the What, 132–33, 137; Zeitoun, 132, 133–34
Eliot, T. S., 69
El Salvador, 56–60
environmentalism, 19–20, 105–25, 127
Environmental Protection Agency, 107
Esquire, 22
Evans, Walker, 10–11
Evers, Medger, 27
Fab Five Freddy, 28
Fatal Vision (McGinniss), 90, 91–92
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Thompson), 52, 80, 81, 83–84
Ferguson, Charles, 5
Ferguson, Roderick, 73–74
film, 4–5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 22–23, 26–29, 38–39, 46, 47–48, 65–66, 90, 94–96, 111, 117–18
finance capitalism, 7–10, 15, 18, 26, 31, 44–46, 51–52, 63, 71, 127, 128, 130, 144–45, 147n7
financial crisis of 2008, 5–6, 7, 135
Fish Story (Sekula), 19, 29, 120, 120
Fog of War, The (Morris), 4–5
Foucault, Michel, The Birth of Biopolitics, 72, 151n2
Fraga, Dan, 36
Fraterrigo, Elizabeth, Playboy and the Making of the Good Life in Modern America, 74
free market, 7–8, 20, 51–52, 66–67, 68, 74, 76, 77, 82, 84, 88, 119, 127, 137, 140
Frey, James, A Million Little Pieces, 38, 128, 137
Frey, John, 48
Friedman, Milton, 48, 51; Two Lucky People, 66–67
Friedman, Rose, 48; Two Lucky People, 66–67
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic (Bechdel), 136
Galindo, Guillermo, 23
Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., Norton Anthology of African American Literature, 73
Gentry, Curt, Helter Skelter, 88–89
Gilbert, Elizabeth, Eat Pray Love, 128
Gillot, Marie-Agnes, 50
Gimme Shelter (Maysles brothers), 94–95
Glass, Loren, Counterculture Colophon, 78
Glass, Philip, qatsi trilogy scores, 13
Glidden, Sarah, 32; Rolling Blackouts, 1–4, 2, 3, 5, 6, 9
Gloeckner, Phoebe, 20, 156n23; The Diary of a Teenage Girl, 136–37
Godard, Jean-Luc, 55
Goldsmith, Kenneth, Uncreative Writing, 134
Gomez, Selena, 6
Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City (Lamar), 18, 26, 38–46, 39
Gore, Al, An Inconvenient Truth, 108
Gosling, Ryan, 6
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 33, 33, 34
Gray, Freddie, 14
Green, Justin, 136
Grierson, John, “The Documentary Producer,” 10
Grove Press, 78
Gulf War, 117–18
Guzmán, Patricio, 19, 48; The Battle of Chile, 65–66; Chile, Obstinate Memory, 65–66, 67
Haacke, Hans, 19, 67; Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings, 47–48, 61–65, 62; On Social Grease, 105–6, 106; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of Trustees, 65
Habermas, Jürgen, The Structural Transformations of the Public Sphere, 129
Haley, Alex, 70–80; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 19, 69, 70, 72–80, 84, 85, 152n25, 152n37, 152n39; “Black Merchants of Hate,” 77; Roots, 72, 73
Hall, Jeanne, “Don’t You Ever Just Watch?,” 27
Hamilton, Ann, 23
Harris, David Ray, 95
Harry, Debbie, 36
Hart, Erin (subject of Dear Erin Hart), 140–41, 141, 142
Harvey, David, 32; A Brief History of Neoliberalism, 71; Seven Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, 147n7
Hayek, Friedrich A., 51, 72; “The Use of Knowledge in Society,” 7–8
Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A (Eggers), 132, 134
Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 58
Heise, Ursula K., “Martian Ecologies and the Future of Nature,” 112–13
Helios Design Labs, 23
Hell’s Angels, 94–95
Hell’s Angels (Thompson), 58
Helter Skelter (Bugliosi and Gentry), 88–89, 90
Herr, Michael, Dispatches, 21–22, 25, 26, 149n8
Herzog, Werner, Lessons of Darkness, 19–20, 117–18
Heti, Sheila, 20, 129; How Should a Person Be?, 138–39
hip hop, 9, 17, 28–46, 68–70. See also rap
Hip Hop Family Tree (Piskor), 18, 26, 32–38, 33, 34, 37, 38, 46
Hogan’s Alley (Outcault), and Hip Hop Family Tree, 33, 34
Hologram for the King, A (Eggers), 134–35
How Should a Person Be? (Heti), 138–39
Huehls, Mitchum, After Critique, 18
Hungerford, Amy, Making Literature Now, 18
Hunter, Meredith, 94–95
Hurricane Katrina, 133–34
hustler, 19, 45, 68–70, 72–73, 77, 78–79, 85. See also individualism
Hutcheon, Linda, A Poetics of Postmodernism, 56
Image Comics, 36
In Cold Blood (Capote), 17, 87, 90
Inconvenient Truth, An (Gore), 108
individualism, 15, 52, 56, 60, 67, 76, 81–82, 84–85, 88, 92, 94, 95, 127–30, 132, 140; as entrepreneurial, 20, 29, 31, 45, 51, 68–70, 85, 88, 89, 105, 119, 127–30, 131, 135, 151nn2–3. See also hustler
Innocents, The (Simon), 90, 97–99, 98, 99
“Insider Baseball” (Didion), 58
installation art, 7, 8, 11, 23, 38, 61–65
In the Aura of a Hole (Palmer), 20, 123–24, 124
Irr, Caren, “Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Realism in William T. Vollmann’s Poor People,” 152n22
Iyer, Pico, “Desert Pitch,” 135
Jagger, Mick, in Gimme Shelter, 94–95
Jameson, Fredric, 9, 56, 57; Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 21–22
Jane: A Murder (Nelson), 100, 103
Jarecki, Andrew, The Jinx, 96
Jay Rock, 41
Jay-Z, 72–73, 80, 85, 151n3; Decoded, 19, 68–70, 151n4; “Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix),” 68; Picasso Baby, 70
jazz, 74–76
Jinx, The (Jarecki), 96
Jones, David Steadman, Masters of the Universe, 8
Joselit, David, After Art, 14
journalism, 1–4, 5, 6, 11, 12, 16–17, 22, 25–26, 32, 50, 61, 70, 74–78, 80–83, 87, 90–91, 112, 142–43, 147n4, 148n18, 148n22, 148n36, 149n8, 155n10
Journalist and the Murderer, The (Malcolm), 90–91
Jujubee (game studio), 23
July, Miranda, 20; Somebody app, 128
Kael, Pauline, “Current Cinema,” 94–95
Karr, Mary, 128
Kaysen, Susanna, 128
Khan-Collors, Patrisse, When They Call You a Terrorist, 104
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 73, 76
Kinkle, Jeff, 23
Kissinger, Henry, 73
Klein, Naomi, 119
Kolbert, Elizabeth, 119
Kool Moe Dee, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 37, 38
Kroll, Gary, 109, 111, 155nn10–11
Kuwait, 117–18
La Berge, Leigh Clare, Scandals and Abstractions, 18
Lady Pink, 28
Lamar, Kendrick, 17, 18–19; Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City, 26, 38–46, 39
Las Vegas, 83–84
Lawrence, Freya, 50
Learning from Las Vegas (Venturi, Brown, and Izenour), 84
LeBlanc, Adrian Nicole, 20; Random Family, 142–44
Lee, Spike, 36; Do the Right Thing, 29
Leibovitz, Annie, 50
Leiterman, Gary, 103
Lejeune, Philippe, 137
Leonard, John, 130
Lessons of Darkness (Herzog), 19–20, 117–18
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans), 10–11
Lichtenstein, Roy, 35
Liefeld, Rob, 36
Lin, Tao, 20, 129; Taipei, 139
literature, 9, 47–60, 68–85, 99–104, 107–20, 127–40, 142–44, 148n36, 152n22
Louisiana, 120–23. See also New Orleans
Lovell, Jessamyn, 20; Dear Erin Hart, 140–41, 141, 142
Mademoiselle, 55
Magaña, Álvaro, 59
Mailer, Norman, 90, 148n36; The Armies of the Night, 16–17, 47, 52
Malcolm, Janet, The Journalist and the Murderer, 90–91
Malcolm X, 38, 72–73, 76–80; The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 19, 69, 70, 72–80, 84, 85, 152n25, 152n37, 152n39
Manson, Charles, 19, 48, 88–89
Marable, Manning, Malcolm X, 77, 152n37
Martin, Theodore, Contemporary Drift, 18
Mayes, Frances, 128
Maysles, Albert and David, Gimme Shelter, 94–95
McCarthy, Cormac, 133
McCourt, Frank, 128
McGinniss, Joe, Fatal Vision, 90, 91–92, 94
McGurl, Mark, “The Posthumous Comedy,” 18, 117, 148n36
McKay, Adam, The Big Short, 5–6
McKibben, Bill, 117
McLanahan, Annie, Dead Pledges, 18
McLemore, John, 92–94
McPhee, John, 119
memoir, 3, 9–10, 20, 25–26, 32, 38, 39, 47, 66–67, 68–70, 85, 99–104, 127–39, 144, 156n23. See also autobiography
“Men Explain Things to Me” (Solnit), 144
Men We Reaped (Ward), 144
Michaels, Walter Benn, 14, 23, 24–25, 103–4, 129; The Beauty of a Social Problem, 103–4
Miller, D. A., Jane Austen, 72
Miller, Lucille, 86–87
Million Little Pieces, A (Frey), 38, 128, 137
Misrach, Richard, 23; The Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings, 121–22, 122; Petrochemical America, 20, 120–23, 121, 122, 123
Mixer, Jane (subject of Jane: A Murder), 100–104
Monteyne, Kimberley Bercov, “The Sound of the South Bronx,” 28
Moraru, Christian, Cosmodernism, 18
Morris, Errol, 6, 85, 95; The Fog of War, 4–5; The Thin Blue Line, 29, 95–96; A Wilderness of Error, 91–92, 93
Morrison, Norman, 4
Morton, Timothy, Ecology without Nature, 117
music, 9, 12, 16, 17, 18–19, 25–46, 68–70, 74–76, 85
Mysterious Opacity of Other Beings, The (Misrach), 121–22, 122
N.W.A., 29–30
Nanook of the North, 12
Nation of Islam, 73, 76–80, 84
nature writing, 107–20, 155n10
Nealon, Jeffrey, Post-Postmodernism, 18
Nelson, Deborah, Tough Enough, 49
Nelson, Maggie, 19, 23, 129; Bluets, 139–40; Jane: A Murder, 99–100, 103; The Red Parts, 90, 99–104
neoliberalism, 6, 8–10, 15, 17–18, 20, 26, 35, 44–46, 47–48, 51–52, 73–74, 84–85, 88, 89, 95, 97, 106–7, 118–119, 125, 127–30, 131, 132, 134, 135, 137, 140, 151nn2–3; emergence of, 47–67, 76, 107, 147n8; and foreign policy, 48, 51–52, 56–60, 65–67; as style, 49–51, 67, 68–85, 148n36, 152n14, 152n22
New Deal, 12–13, 23, 107–8, 110, 111
New Journalism, 7, 8, 15, 17, 25–26, 47–60, 70–85, 129–30, 150n3
New Orleans, 133–34
Newton, Huey P., 48
New York Review of Books, 56
Nichols, Bill, Speaking Truths with Film, 10
Nixon, Richard, 107
Nixon, Rob, 109, 118; “slow violence,” 32
Norris, Kathleen, 68–70
objectivity: in documentary, 12, 15; in journalism, 2–3, 12, 22, 112, 148n22
Occupy Wall Street, 45
On Social Grease (Haacke), 105–6, 106
“On the Morning after the Sixties” (Didion), 60
Orff, Kate, Petrochemical America, 20, 120–21
Paglen, Trevor, 23
Palmer, A. Laurie, In the Aura of a Hole, 20, 123–24, 124
Passaro, Alan, 94
Peleg, Hila, 23
Pelzer, Dave, 128
Pennebaker, D. A., Dont Look Back, 18, 26–28, 29
Pentagon, march on, 4
Pentagram (design firm), 91–92, 93
performance art, 7, 13, 29, 70, 85
Petrochemical America (Misrach and Orff), 20, 120–23, 121, 123
photography, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, 17, 22–23, 24–25, 38, 39, 47–48, 49–50, 53–55, 61–65, 87, 97–99, 102, 104, 120–25, 136, 140–41. See also photojournalism
photojournalism, 3, 6, 13, 29, 53–55, 147n4
Picasso Baby (Jay-Z), 70
Pinochet regime, 66–67
Piper, Adrian, 29
Piskor, Ed, Hip Hop Family Tree, 18, 26, 32–38, 33, 34, 37, 38, 46
Playboy, 72, 73–76, 75, 152n46
podcasts, 87, 90, 92–94, 156n23
postmodernism, 9, 15–18, 21–22, 25, 30–31, 56, 84, 148n36, 149n8
Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (Jameson), 21–22
Powaqqatsi (Reggio), 13–14
Powell, Julie, 129
Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes, 56–57
prison, 42–43
privatization, 20, 32, 42–43, 51–52, 58, 59, 70–71, 84, 89
Pusha T, 39
Quinn, Eithne, Nothin’ But a “G” Thang, 29, 45
Quiñones, Lee (star of Wild Style), 28
Rak, Julie, Boom!, 129
Random Family (LeBlanc), 142–44
Rankine, Claudia, Citizen, 23
rap, 12, 17, 28–46, 68–70, 85, 149n25, 151n3. See also hip hop
Rauschenberg, Robert, 55
Reagan administration, 8, 30, 57–60, 89
Redgrave, Vanessa, 130
Red Parts, The (Nelson), 90, 99–104
Reggio, Godfrey, Powaqqatsi, 13–14
Renger-Patzsch, Albert, 10
Reynolds, Debbie, 83
River, The (Lorentz), 110, 111
Robbie, Margot, in The Big Short, 6
Rockwell, Norman, 53
Rolling Blackouts (Glidden), 1–4, 2, 3, 5, 9
Rolling Stones, the, and Gimme Shelter, 94–95
Romero, Óscar, 57
Rose, Tricia, The Hip Hop Wars, 44, 68
Rosler, Martha, The Bowery in Two Inadequate Descriptive Systems, 22–23
Rowan, Jamin Creed, “The New York School of Urban Ecology,” 114
Rubin, Rick, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 35
Rule, Ann, The Stranger Besie Me, 89
Run-DMC, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 35
Ruscha, Ed, 137
Sacco, Joe, Safe Area Goražde, 26, 32
Salazar, Ruben, 82
Salvador (Didion), 56–60
Salvadoran Civil War, 56–60
San Bernardino, 86–88
San Francisco, 48, 53–55, 83–84, 140
Satrapi, Marjane, 32
Saturday Evening Post: and Didion, 48, 53–55, 54, 87; and Haley, 72, 76–77
Saudi Arabia, 135
Schneemann, Carolee, 85
Schudson, Michael, Discovering the News, 112
Schwabsky, Barry, “Inside Out,” 63–64
science fiction, 111, 112, 116–17, 125
science writing, 107–20, 155n10
Sea Around Us, The (Carson), 110, 111, 113, 119, 155n10
Segal, Bernard, 91
Sekula, Allan, Fish Story, 19, 29, 120, 120
Seltzer, Mark, “Serial Killers (II),” 96
Serrano, Andres, 70
Shapolsky et al. Manhattan Real Estate Holdings (Haacke), 47–48, 61–65, 62
Signifying Rappers (Wallace and Costello), 30–31
Silent Spring (Carson), 19, 107–19, 124–25
Simmons, Russell, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 35
Simon, Taryn, 17, 19, 23, 104; The Innocents, 90, 97–99, 98, 99
Slouching Towards Bethlehem (Didion), 53–55, 86–88
“Slouching Towards Bethlehem” (Didion), 53–55, 54
Smith, Rachel Greenwald, Affect and American Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism, 18
Smith, Terry, What Is Contemporary Art?, 18
social media, 3, 10, 14–15, 125, 127–28
Solnit, Rebecca, “Men Explain Things to Me,” 144
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of Trustees (Haacke), 65
“Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream” (Didion), 86–88
Son of a Gun (St. Germain), 144
Spiegelman, Art, 26, 29, 32, 136
Stallabrass, Julian, 14, 147n4
Stevens, Earl, 42
St. Germain, Justin, 20, 129; Son of a Gun, 144
S Town (podcast), 92–94
Stranger Beside Me, The (Rule), 89, 90
“Strange Rumblings in Aztlan” (Thompson), 82
Stuelke, Patricia, 58
Sudan, 132
Sugarhill Gang, 33
Sugarhill Records, 36
sulfur, 123–24
Supremes, the, 55
Szalay, Michael, Hip Figures, 148n36
Tagg, John, “Melancholy Realism,” 11
Taipei (Lin), 139
Tate, Greg, “What Is Hip Hop?,” 31
television, 5, 17, 87, 90, 96, 101, 116, 127, 128
Thin Blue Line, The (Morris), 29, 95–96
Thoma, Pamela, “What Julia Knew,” 129
Thompson, Hunter S., 17, 47, 70–73, 80–85, 152n46; “The Battle of Aspen,” 80–82; Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 52, 80, 81, 83–84; Hell’s Angels, 58; “Strange Rumblings in Aztlan,” 82
Thoreau, Henry David, 114
Tone Loc, 31
Top Dawg Records, 40
Toscano, Alberto, Cartographies of the Absolute, 23
totality, 23
T-Pain, 16
Twain, Mark, 133
2015 Baltimore Uprising, The, 14–15
Two Lucky People (Friedman and Friedman), 66–67
Under the Sea-Wind (Carson), 110, 113, 119
University of Chicago, 51, 59, 66
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 109, 110, 155n10
Valech Commission, 66
VanderMeer, Jeff, 125
Vennett, Jared, 6
Vertov, Dziga, 10
Vietnam War, 4–5, 7, 13, 21–22, 25, 58
Village Voice, 31
Vogue, 49
Vollmann, William T., 152n22
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (Allen), 111
Wakefield, Dan, 87
Wall, Jeff, 18; Mimic, 24, 24–25, 26
Wallace, David Foster, Signifying Rappers, 30–31
Ward, Jesmyn, 20, 129; Men We Reaped, 144
Warner, Michael, The Letters of the Republic, 129
West, Kanye, “Diamonds from Sierra Leone (Remix),” 38
“What Is Hip-Hop?” (Tate), 31
What Is the What (Eggers), 132–33, 137
White, Hayden, Figural Realism, 12
“White Album, The” (Didion), 48–49, 50
Widener, Jeff, 29
Wilderness of Error, A (Morris), 91–92, 93
Wild Style (Ahearn), 18, 26, 28–29, 32, 34, 46
Williams, Justin A., 44
Williams, Raymond, Marxism and Literature, 152n14
Wilson, Christopher P., Learning to Live with Crime, 89
Wilson, Fred, 23
Winfrey, Oprah, 128, 129–30, 137
Wolfe, Tom, 17
Wolff, Tobias, 128
World War II, 4
Wurtzel, Elizabeth, Prozac Nation, 128
Yagoda, Ben, 128
Year of Magical Thinking, The (Didion), 130–31
Yellow Kid, in Hip Hop Family Tree, 33, 34
Zapruder film, 94
Zeitoun, Abdulrahman, 133–34