cultural politics/"real" politics

Jim heartfield Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Mon May 4 05:57:59 PDT 1998


In message <l03130303b17269e28d1d@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes
>And what about this surplus? In capitalist societies, that surplus is very
>unevenly distributed, and fucking-with-identity, or even thinking about it,
>is a marker of privilege. But wouldn't you like to see that privilege
>spread around a bit?

Oh yes of course, though I suppose it would not be privilege then.

What I am reacting against is the mood that sees working class consumption as profligacy and waste, but middle class consumption as an earnest and imaginative investigation of desire.

Hence my attitude to the car.

-- Jim heartfield



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