>Back in the late 70's Telos editor, Paul Piccone, defended his," Artificial
>Negativity," thesis and it's high level of abstraction, and the journals
>(simplified, the New Left and the the civil rights movements were
>manufactured attempts to debureaucratize a overly rigid, One Dimensional
>system and polity that had been totally colonized by the logic of capital
>and the culture industry.) by saying that this prevented the State from
>appropriating the insights of the American acolytes of the Frankfurters to
>further the "iron cage" and make us all souless automatons in a totally
>administered world.
Didn't Lacan say he wrote the way he did to keep Americans from vulgarizing him?
Doug