> 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?
Somewhat on the mark, but too simple. The greatest works of the counter-culture -- McGoohan's epochal "The Prisoner", Hendrix' magnificent trilogy, Bill Burroughs' novelic trilogy in the early Sixties, etc. etc. continue to serve as powerful sources of resistance. This has nothing to do with the counter-cultural style of beads, slang, amplified guitars, etc.; you have to get into the bedrock of the material, note by note, line by line, and ferret out the historical antagonisms in the thing (map out the field and habitus, as Bourdieu would put it).
-- Dennis