Visionaries and sages, crackpots and zealots!
Meet the dystopian, self-directed, anti-neoliberal Autotelics.
Dark, skeptical, ironic, yet romantic Retrogressivists.
The generation born 1824-33 is the first post-Romantic one.
The 1834-1843 cohort paved the way for Modernism.
What can we say about the generation born from 1994-2003? Nothing.
Meet the Throwback Generation (1984-93), and rejoice.
The precocious, ferocious cohort born from 1974-83.
Were you born between 1964-73? You’re NOT a Gen Xer!
Alienated, analytical, funny social/cultural critics tend to be born in “3″ and “4″ years. Why?
A lost generation born from 1954-63.
Born between 1944 and 1953: the Boomers.
Members of the generational cohort born from 1934-43 were in their teens…
Those born from 1924-33 are nearly impervious to Middlebrow’s discourse.
The New Gods are stronger, faster, and smarter than other generations.
“My starting point is always a feeling of partisanship, a sense of injustice.”
The 1894-1903 cohort are bitterly resigned to unfreedom.
The 1884-93 cohort sought to make it new, to begin again.
The 1874-83 cohort travel far and wide in search of new visions.
The 1864-73 cohort is a lost generation of absurdists and experimenters.
The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.
The 1844-53 cohort overreached βΒ and worried about it.
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