This re-alignment of the conceptual framework of the social function of
cultural politics appears to be a result of the fore mentioned slow, and
steady century long process of self-criticality identified with the endgame of
modernism, which displaced the artist, analyzed and
Out-sourced the fabrication of the object so in the end the artist was the
person who authored the idea" whose source could equally mass popular
culture, or critical theory given the equivalency of the two. But this shift
may be thought to be equally an affect of, rather than the cause of the
relative progress of appropriation, instrumentality, and subjectivity that has
been taken to by many as markers of the creation of as egalitarian and
democratic public culture. Many of those engaged in critical practices fail
to take into account that the dissolving of the borders of the private and
public sphere, which traditionally ordered individual interactions and
communication, as well as societal communication and deliberation, at this
time effectively brings public life structurally into line with the needs and
social strategies of corporate capitalism.
