>But mass-culture in Adorno's
>day, all the way until the Sixties, really, was a dreadfully oppressive,
>racist, mind-bendingly patriarchal and stupefying affair; what we see
>nowadays -- the occasional black and white film, for example -- is just
>the high-quality stuff which survived. The counter-culture was the
>prison-break from this particular form of mass-culture, but Adorno died
>before he had a chance to reflect seriously on this.
So Dennis, what do you make of the Tom Frank/Baffler argument that capital has appropriated the counterculture to its own ends, selling stuff and making us into good subjects?
Doug