Tag: capitalism
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Starship Troopers
(This is taken from the author’s presentation for another symposium on the general issue of perception. Various talking points have been merged to create this ad-hoc essay. The stream of consciousness may not be great, but recreating the actual verbal arguments made from the presentation over 3 years ago is impossible anyway.) First published in…
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Culture Industry, and Why It Doesn’t Exist
This short essay will take the views and arguments of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer on their self-named “culture industry” at its key interest, and will try to provide rebutting statements from a classical liberalist, and laissez-faire perspective. Lines from a summary of their chapter called Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, within the larger…
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