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work_wgd3bpalm5emfjblquwkju3otq	Alexander J. Means	Adapting the Xanax Generation: Meditations on Catastrophic Precarity and Postdigital Melancholia	2019	8	.pdf	application/pdf	3978	251	53	institution, a 4-year, largely working-class college in the State University of New York However, particularly for working class students, like the Reflexive impotence is a state of being marked by nihilistic churn (fleeting news cycles, infosaturation, historical amnesia, opportunism, mendacity and lies) along with grinding The working-class students at my former institution However, a combination of personal burdens (debt, health problems, family troubles), an infantilizing culture of anti-intellectualism, and prior experiences of abandonment, effectively rendered, for many, their status as college students internalized the basic truth of late capitalism: Cash Rules Everything Around Me. Working class students know the deck is stacked. For instance, safe spaces and Twitter callout cultures reduce politics to individual psychology, personal branding (woke virtue Xanax Generation, I have found that when rendered into an object of analysis, students Adapting the Xanax Generation: Meditations on Catastrophic Precarity and Postdigital Melancholia Adapting the Xanax Generation: Meditations on Catastrophic Precarity and Postdigital Melancholia	./cache/work_wgd3bpalm5emfjblquwkju3otq.pdf	./txt/work_wgd3bpalm5emfjblquwkju3otq.txt