Index

Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations.

Abbey, Edward, 119

Abernethy, Graeme, The Iconography of Malcolm X, 152n39

Abramovič, Marina, 70, 85

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

Almeida, Paul, 56, 59

Apocalypse Now (Coppola), 58

Armies of the Night, The (Mailer), 16, 17, 52

Ascher, Ivan, Portfolio Society, 44–45

audio, 5, 7, 16, 37, 95–96

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

autonomy, 23, 25

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 Lives Matter, 10, 104

“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

Bonaventure Hotel, 21, 57

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

Bronx, 29, 31

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

Bundy, Ted, 19, 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

Cold War, 4–5, 58

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

Crumb, R., 34, 136

Davis, Miles, 73–76, 77

Dear Erin Hart (Lovell), 140–41, 141, 142

debt, 44–45, 60

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

Dr. Dre, 30, 40, 44

Dunaway, Finis, Seeing Green, 115

Dunne, John Gregory, 48, 130

Dunne Michael, Quintana Roo, 50, 130

Durst, Robert, 96

Dylan, Bob, 19, 26–27, 46, 68

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

exploitation, 41, 104

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

Flaherty, Robert, 10, 12

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

Freak Power, 80–82, 84

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

graffiti, 28–29, 31, 34

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

Guggenheim Museum, 61, 65

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

Interrotron, 4–5, 6, 85

In the Aura of a Hole (Palmer), 20, 123–24, 124

Iraq, 1, 3, 9

Irr, Caren, “Anti-Capitalism and Anti-Realism in William T. Vollmann’s Poor People,152n22

Iyer, Pico, “Desert Pitch,” 135

Jacobs, Jane, 114, 156n36

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

Joseph, Kahli, 38, 43

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

Kennedy, John F., 94, 109

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

Leovy, Jill, 42, 43

Lerner, Ben, 10:04, 23

Lessons of Darkness (Herzog), 19–20, 117–18

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (Agee and Evans), 10–11

Lewis, Michael, 5, 134

liberalism, 8–9, 47, 58, 111

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

Lorenz, Pare, 110, 111

Los Angeles, 40–44, 82

Louisiana, 120–23. See also New Orleans

Lovell, Jessamyn, 20; Dear Erin Hart, 140–41, 141, 142

m.A.A.d. (Joseph), 38, 43, 44

MacDonald, Jeffrey, 19, 91–92

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

Mayes, Larry, 97–98, 99

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

McNamara, Robert, 4–5, 6

McPhee, John, 119

McSweeney’s, 131, 138

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

Mimic (Wall), 24, 24–25, 26

Mirowski, Philip, 52, 65

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

modernism, 10–12, 23

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

new sincerity, 85, 131, 138

Newton, Huey P., 48

New Yorker, 94–95, 114

New York Review of Books, 56

New York Times, 50, 87, 135

Nichols, Bill, Speaking Truths with Film, 10

Nixon, Richard, 107

Nixon, Rob, 109, 118; “slow violence,” 32

Nixon shock, 8, 84

Norris, Kathleen, 68–70

objectivity: in documentary, 12, 15; in journalism, 2–3, 12, 22, 112, 148n22

Occupy Wall Street, 45

oil, 9, 105–7, 117–18, 120–24

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

poetry, 6, 7

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

Public Enemy, 29–30, 31

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

Reader’s Digest, 72, 73, 76

Reagan administration, 8, 30, 57–60, 89

real estate, 42, 61–65

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

Robinson, Sylvia, 35, 36

Rockwell, Norman, 53

Rolling Blackouts (Glidden), 1–4, 2, 3, 5, 9

Rolling Stone, 72, 80–84

Rolling Stones, the, and Gimme Shelter, 94–95

Romero, Óscar, 57

Roots (Haley), 72, 73

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

Sontag, Susan, 13, 55

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

Streshinsky, Ted, 53, 54

Stuelke, Patricia, 58

Stuteville, Sarah, 1, 3

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

testimony, 3–5, 6, 95–96, 144

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

true crime, 19, 86–104

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

video games, 23, 125

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

Webb, Troy, 97, 98

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

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