In 1966, Marcuse wrote: The affluent society is in its own way preparing for this eventuality "by organizing the desire for beauty and the hunger for community," the renewal of the "contact with nature," the enrichment of the mind, and honors for "creation for its own sake." The false ring of such proclamations is indicative of the fact that, within the established system, these aspirations are translated into administered cultural activities, sponsored by the government and the big corporations -- an extension of their executive arm into the soul of the masses.
Well, the affluent society is gone and 'you'* are redundant. Good riddance. * those using 'we' so often on this forum. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
