Tom Frank: Perpetual Revolution (Le Monde Diplomatique,May 2001) (from nettime)

Carl Remick carlremick at hotmail.com
Thu May 17 15:35:41 PDT 2001



>I don't know what to think of this, but it has some intriguing
>observations.
>
>Carrol
>
>Le Monde diplomatique
><http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/05/03bigsellfrank>
>
>May 2001
>
>Perpetual revolution
>
>by TOM FRANK

What a magnificent collection of closely observed, social self-contradictions. One of my favorites:


>[In the consumer culture] [y]outh is valued over age. Change over
>tradition. ...
>[T]he people
>who
>craft advertising tend to be extremely hip: the unstructured office is
>an
>invention of Madison Avenue, as is the now omnipresent tradition of
>casual
>dress in the workplace.

How long can one sustain a *tradition* of casual dress in the workplace without the practice being recognized as simply another phony gesture of subversiveness -- indeed, as a restrictive convention?

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