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The commodification of subjectivity. The critique of commodity psychology inevitably seems to be displaced and fractured, distorted, by the seductive appeal with which the commodity is portrayed: usually a fragmented fetish object from which different narratives emerge… From Joseph Heller … Continue reading

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basically it was a lie: the weight of conformity

Technology. Television, internet, music. What Theodor Adorno called “the culture industries” . This was seen by Walter Benjamin in the 1920’s as being at the forefront of what was termed “modernity”. Benjamin saw this as “radical immediacy” and it would … Continue reading

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