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user-inactivated  ·  2995 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An essay on cultural change

Fair enough, but if you're going to read this I sure do miss when the proles took the culture the church and aristocracy gave them and liked it crap, read Society of the Spectacle too.





user-inactivated  ·  2995 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We are, as usual, further apart than sun and moon. Did you feel the article's characterization of Debord was unfair? Or lacked nuance?

If that essay will tell me anything I don't already know about commodity fetishism and the ideology from which it is extrapolated, I suppose I will read it.

user-inactivated  ·  2995 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Me am not bizarro flagamuffin.

I think he is as fair as can be expected in a few paragraphs where his purpose is mostly to contrast himself with Debord, but a few paragraphs of hostile if polite summary isn't a good substitute for actually reading the book.