{"id":285,"date":"2010-09-20T14:09:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/?p=285"},"modified":"2010-09-20T14:25:08","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T19:25:08","slug":"depression-chic-with-bryant-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/2010\/09\/20\/depression-chic-with-bryant-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression Chic with Bryant Simon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This episode we talk with Bryant Simon, author of the Summer 2010 <em>Contexts<\/em> culture review, <a href=\"http:\/\/contexts.org\/articles\/summer-2010\/depression-chic-shopping-our-way-to-recovery\/\">Depression Chic &mdash; Shopping Our Way To Recovery<\/a>. Topics include &#8220;inconspicuous conspicuous consumption&#8221;, the politics of depression in the 1930s and today, Simon&#8217;s book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucpress.edu\/book.php?isbn=9780520261068\">Everything but the Coffee: Learning about America from Starbucks<\/a>, and what historians and sociologists can learn from one another.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-285 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/cbs-morning-show.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/cbs-morning-show-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Depression Chic on the CBS Morning Show\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-286\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-286'>\n\t\t\t\tDepression Chic on the CBS Morning Show\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/designer-benjamin-bixby-1.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/designer-benjamin-bixby-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Depression Chic by Designer Benjamin Bixby\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-287\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-287'>\n\t\t\t\tDepression Chic by Designer Benjamin Bixby\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/designer-benjamin-bixby-2.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/designer-benjamin-bixby-2-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Depression Chic by Designer Benjamin Bixby\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-288\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-288'>\n\t\t\t\tDepression Chic by Designer Benjamin Bixby\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/runway.png'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/officehours\/files\/2010\/09\/runway-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"Depression Chic\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-289\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-289'>\n\t\t\t\tDepression Chic\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Also, Sarah awards The Society Page of the Week to <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/citings\/2010\/09\/12\/a-public-display-of-emotion\/\">A Public Display of Emotion<\/a> from Citings &amp; Sightings.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mediamill.cla.umn.edu\/mediamill\/download.php.mp3?orig=62527.mp3\">Download Office Hours #5!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This episode we talk with Bryant Simon, author of the Summer 2010 Contexts culture review, Depression Chic &mdash; Shopping Our Way To Recovery. 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