Adam Ellwanger

Adam Ellwanger is a professor at University of Houston – Downtown where he studies rhetoric and popular culture. If Billy Corgan wants to apologize for making him write "The Contemporary Individual", Dr. Ellwanger can be reached at [email protected]. His new book, Metanoia: Rhetoric, Authenticity, and the Transformation of the Self, is available now in hardcover and on Kindle from Penn State University Press.
Billy Corgan Brainwashed Me: ’90s Alternative Rock and the Introspective Abyss

Billy Corgan Brainwashed Me: ’90s Alternative Rock and the Introspective Abyss

Once in its thrall, these days I find the overriding message of '90s alt-rock especially naïve and even dangerous.