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Hello list, <br>
just a message from an assiduous reader, the "guy" you mentionned is
Guy Debord and not Guy duBord ( which in french would say "the guy from
the border" or "the side-guy")<br>
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Saul Ostrow a écrit :
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<title>Re: [iDC] IPF09 Conference thoughts</title>
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</span></font><font face="Baskerville, Times New Roman"><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><i>While the conjunction of culture and
politics were elaborated and critiqued advanced by <b><u>Guy duBord</u></b>
in the Society of the Spectacle has become connical – the work of
Daniel Bell the ultra-conservative cultural theorist perhaps better
demonstrates how the cultural sphere under-capitalism is used primarily
a force of social control. The cultural contradictions of Capital, as
Bell understood them lay in the fact that that if left unchecked,
liberalism’s unrestrained belief in the value of a community of
individuals committed to improving the common good by social and
cultural means would bring down western civilization by unraveling the
duplicity which forms the fabric of capitalism’s political economy.
Bell formulated this analysis - cum plan just as progressive workers
allied with the civil rights, women’s and gay movements had
successfully turned cultural demands into political demands. Bell in
turn radically proposed that this process of cultural self-realization
self-representation, expression, and the nominal freedoms of cultural
equality and emancipation could be used to divert liberal labor and the
middle classes from the struggle for economic and political justice.
For the good of “society” what was needed was to detached the cultural
domain from that of real politics so that liberals might safely
(harmlessly), and systematically examine the opposition between the
symbolic desirability of bourgeois ideals and how these antithetically
are registered in the economic domains. This could be done by
sustaining the disenfranchised, liberal middle-classes’ ambition of one
day gaining the necessary power to improve the lot of the vast majority
of the people most affected by the desperate state of affairs created
by the laws of Capitalism. </i></span></font><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Times New Roman"> </font><font
face="Baskerville, Times New Roman"><i>Reciprocally, Bell’s strategy
was for the Right to exploit the inherent contradiction in the modern
liberal cause, which by seeking to resolve class conflict by cultural
means further obscured and strengthened class division along economic
lines. What liberals fail to notice is that the values they promoted
are ideologically consistent with the self-image of Capitalism, which
in word and not deed has traditionally promoted cultural development as
a progressive force in the struggle against backwardness. The irony of
course is that the advocates of cultural change are represented to
those they seek to help, as being a foolish, extravagant, and
self-indulgent elite whose concerns are detached from everyday reality.
This was to result in the vast majority seeking relief in ideological
models of self, and well being circulated by the mass media and the
culture industry. Personally, I believe that this is what is replicated
in most cases both here and in the class room when we seek to engage in
theorizing cultural critique and its practices without the benefit of
self-reflexivity, which leaves them vulnerable to their subjectivities
and good intentions.</i></font></span>
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