> How about cultural Stalinism?
Well, there was a lively culture of *resistance* to Stalinism (Eisenstein, Bulgakov, Akhmatova, Blok). But chip fabs tend to rely on a rather different logic of domination (though some would say that Intel's management culture has uncanny resemblances to the early KGB).
> Zizek's comments: "What cannot fail to strike us is the almost total
> absence of theoretical confrontation with Stalinism in the tradition of
> the Frankfurt School (with the exception of Neumann and Marcuse's Soviet
> Marxism ["his least passionate and arguably worst book"]... in order to
> avoid "losing their official mask of 'radical' Leftist critique...
> (Zizek, Did Somebody Say Totalitarianism? 2001, 92-93).This follows from
Zizek is a stylin' dude, but he either hasn't read his Adorno, who talks about nothing *but* the totality of late capitalism, or was too busy picking off easy targets like Marcuse. In the past, you could argue this was a translation problem, but now there's a legible version of Negative Dialectics out there (can't imagine whoever had anything to do with that...).
-- Dennis