DJ Freddy J Spins the Phat Trax

[Brad DeLong]

>G'day Brad,
>
>>You do realize that I understand barely a word of the above? I mean,
>>I don't understand in what sense "postmodernism is the cultural logic
>>of multinational capitalism." And I also do not understand how
>>"globalization"--which started in a serious way with the steamship
>>and the telegraph--is merely one face of "postmodernity." And
>>thereafter my confusion deepens...
>
>A nice bloke called Fred reckonms we're all economists now, that that's how
>we relate to each other, and that we don't so much produce our culture in
>living our lives, where and when we are, but consciously make it up with an
>eye to flogging it to someone.

And this is different from Virgil composing the Aeneid for Augustus 
or Irish bards singing about the noble deeds of the mythical 
ancestors of their hosts or monks making up stories of the saint 
whose bone is in the wall to encourage donations... how, exactly?

Brad DeLong