tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post5953545145807478516..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: Capitalism, Consumerism and PatriarchyUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-11506908175683522902009-06-24T21:46:48.057-05:002009-06-24T21:46:48.057-05:00That Espen Hammer book I mentioned is quite good. ...That Espen Hammer book I mentioned is quite good. <br /><br />Also, reading Adorno is good -the essay the "Culture Industry" from Dialectic of Enlightenment is worth reading, as is essay "On the Fetish Character in Music", both of which are available free at Marxists.org. <br /><br />J.M. Bernstein has written some interesting things on this topic in Adorno, and he sees a lack in Adorno's account of social psychology that would explain in more detail why individuals identify with "the imperatives that structure their own domination". Bernstein thinks Judith Butler's elaboration of power might be a possible candidate for filling out this theory. <br /><br />To the extent that I know what I think here, it seems to me that Hammer's skepticism about the ability of Bulter's theory to apply to situations outside of authoritarian societies is correct -and I'm talking here about the Foucault-influenced aspects of her approach that reduces subjectivity as such to operations of power. I'm not sure what emancipation could mean if we have a social theory in which Subjects are liquidated as none other than ideology all the way down. But I'm trying to be open-minded here, despite my prima facie sense that a subject-less socail theory is no social theory at all.thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-50974164263775801812009-06-24T19:42:48.220-05:002009-06-24T19:42:48.220-05:00Fabulous post. What should I read to learn more ab...Fabulous post. What should I read to learn more about this Culture Industry theory in depth?Arvillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02966511261153415467noreply@blogger.com