The Bourgeoisie Problem

Why are so many of the aspirations that shape modern life seen as necessary, even when they no longer seem to mean very much? The Bourgeoisie Problem explores how modern society has come to organise itself around the anxieties, ambitions, and quiet pressures of the middle class, and what this has done to the way we live. Written by a social theorist exploring culture, status, and power in contemporary life, this book looks closely at the structures we move through every day, and the forces that shape them. "Something has changed in the way we live. >Our ambitions feel familiar, yet slightly rehearsed. Our pleasures are polished, but strangely thin. >This book enters the rooms where status takes shape: the gallery opening dressed as a social ritual, the office that feels like a stage set, >It is a study of progress, and its quiet costs. A portrait of a civilisation that prizes momentum >Nothing here is exaggerated. >It is simply the story of the society we have become, told clearly enough that we may finally notice what has been guiding us all along."