In her fascinating but frustrating new book, <em>Very Important People: Status and Beauty in the Global Party Circuit</em>, American sociologist, Ashley Mears (2020) offers both academic and mainstream readers a titillating, cross-over tour around the “cool” nightclub and party scene of the “global elite.” It is perhaps not so much global, however, as American, in the sense of the heteropatriarchal, middle-aged, male, working rich of America (or more precisely of its financial capital New York), jetting into their traditional party hotspots of Miami, Saint-Tropez, or the French Riviera, to party with young women who are (indirectly) paid (in-kind) to pose with them. Whether intentional or unintentional, along the way Mears also offers a dark mirror to the fears and fantasies of a rather lost millennial generation, raised in a new media, image age, which has coupled fast and furious performative excess to old fashioned sexual objectification, in the guise of fun and empowerment for the beautiful people.

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（非）非常重要的人：过剩时代的千禧一代流动性幻想

美国社会学家阿什利·米尔斯（Ashley Mears，2020 年）在她引人入胜但令人沮丧的新书<em>非常重要的人：全球政党巡回赛中的地位和美丽</em>中，为学术界和主流读者提供了一次令人兴奋的跨界之旅“全球精英”的“酷”夜店和派对现场。然而，它可能不像美国那样具有全球性，因为美国（或者更准确地说是其金融首都纽约）的异父权制、中年、男性、工作富有的人，喷射到他们传统的聚会热点迈阿密，圣特罗佩或法国里维埃拉，与（间接）支付（实物）与她们合影的年轻女性聚会。无论是有意还是无意，Mears 一路上也为在新媒体中提出的相当迷失的千禧一代的恐惧和幻想提供了一面黑暗的镜子，