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GENERATION X

GENERATION X. DOUGLAS COUPLAND BY TIHANA MALIČ. WORDFORMATION / NEW, NONEXISTENT EXPRESSIONS. MCJOB A low pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. POVERTY JET SET

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GENERATION X

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  1. GENERATION X DOUGLAS COUPLAND BY TIHANA MALIČ

  2. WORDFORMATION / NEW, NONEXISTENT EXPRESSIONS MCJOB A low pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. POVERTY JET SET A group of people given to chronic traveling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permanent residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone-call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent-flyer programs at parties.

  3. HISTORICAL UNDERDOSING To live in a period of time when nothing seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts. HISTORICAL OVERDOSING To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

  4. BRAZILIFICATION The widening gulf between the rich and the poor and the accompanying disappearance of the middle class. DECADE BLENDING In clothing: the indiscriminate combination of two or more items from various decades to create a personal mood. VEAL-FATTENING PEN Small, cramped office workstations built of fabric-covered disassemblable wall partitions and inhabited by junior staff members. Named after the small preslaughtered cubicles used by the cattle industry.

  5. BAMBIFICIATION The mental conversion of flesh and blood living creatures into cartoon characters possessing bourgeois Judeo-Christian attitudes and morals. SURVIVULOUSNESS The tendency to visualize oneself enjoying being the last remaining person on Earth. “I’d take a helicopter up and throw microwave ovens down on the Taco Bell.” DORIAN GRAYING The unwillingness to gracefully allow one’s body to show signs of aging.

  6. POSTMODERNISM IN GENERATION X • CULTURAL POSTMODERNISM: CONTEMPORARY CONSUMER’S SOCIETY, MASS MEDIA, NEW WORDS AND EXPRESSIONS • IT PRESENTS CONTEMPORARY LIFE AS A SERIES OF SIMULACRA • PASTICHE: REFERENCE TO SOME WELL-KNOWN, FAMOUS PEOPLE (“It was Hister, not Hitler, Nostradamus predicted.” “That’s so Warhol.”, etc.) • SUBCULTURES: BASEMENT SUBCULTURE, EARTH TONES - A YOUTHFUL SUBGROUP INTERESTED IN VEGETARIANISM, TIE-DYED OUTFITS, MILD RECREATIONAL DRUGS, AND GOOD STEREO EQUIPMENT

  7. WORKS CITED Coupland, Douglas. Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture.St. Martin Press: New York, 1991. Geyh, E. Paula. “Assembling Postmodernism: Experience, Meaning, and the Space In-Between”.College Literature 30.2, Spring 2003: 2-5. Jameson, Fredric. “Postmodernism and Consumer Society”, Postmodern American Fiction, A Norton Anthology, Eds. Paula Geyh, Fred G.Leebron & Andrew Levy. New York: Norton, 1998: 655-663 ---. “The Aesthetic of Consumer Society.” Postmodernism and Consumer Society. Ed. Vincent B, Leitch. New York: Norton , 1990. 1972-1974

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