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![Notes on <i>OK Boomer</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Jeff-Hagerman_Boomtown_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
![OK! OK, Boomer: the Critical Theory of Contemporary Angst](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Chaudhary_BoomDoomGloomZoom_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
OK! OK, Boomer: the Critical Theory of Contemporary Angst
Ajay Singh Chaudhary on the sharpened passions at the beginning of class consciousness, the denunciation of the mid-century way of life, and politicized aesthetics.
![Parenting and Property: the Prodigal Son in Modern Life](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Healey_Prodigal-Son_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
Parenting and Property: the Prodigal Son in Modern Life
Allyson Healey examines intergenerational conflict in painter James Tissot's 1880 series The Prodigal Son in Modern Life.
![When is Resistance Right?](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Gaddy_When-is-the-Resistance-Right_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
When is Resistance Right?
Kristina Gaddy on the Edelweiss Pirates, protesting for fossil fuel divestment at Harvard and Yale, and resistance that doesn't look like resistance.
![From Ponte de Dom Luis](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Yanyi_From-Pont-De-Dom-Luis_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
![On Memes and Movements and Moving Home](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Boomer-Meme_w_-Name-1024x683.jpg)
On Memes and Movements and Moving Home
Christine Elliott on memetic structures, digital literacy, and the in-joke quality of OK Boomer.
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