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"geert lovink" <geert@xs4all.nl> >(fwd via kees stad and the pandora list) > >Le Monde diplomatique ><http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/05/03bigsellfrank> > >May 2001 > >Perpetual revolution YES PL EASE!!!!!! >http://www.en.monde-diplomatique.fr/2001/05/03bigsellfrank The page you requested is available only to paid subscribers. YES PL EASE!!!!!! nn - my hands are whiter yours. i utilize ultra-lux!!!!! pre.konssept!Øn meeTz ver!f1kat!Øn. - Netochka Nezvanova - SUPORT-VEkTOR-MASKIN - ISBN: 0140444556 f3.MASCHIN3NKUNST @www.eusocial.com 17.hzV.tRL.478 e | | +---------- | | < \\----------------+ | n2t | > e >by TOM FRANK > >(Author of The Conquest of Cool (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, >1997) and One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism and >the end of Economic Democracy (Doubleday, New York, 2000) > >One of the most tenacious myths of the "culture wars" that have been going >on in the United States for over 30 years is that youth counterculture has >some sort of innate transgressive power; that the eternal battle between >hippie and hardhat, disco-dweller and churchgoer, individualist and >conformist, is every bit as important a struggle as the one between >classes once was. > >This belief in the significance of the war between hip and square is >accepted as holy writ not only by avatars of academic cultural studies, >but by our entertainment and marketing industries as well. To tune in to >prime-time TV programming at any time during the 1990s was to hear >corporate America, through its advertising, beat the drum for >"revolution", call boldly for the breaking of "rules", and insist >defiantly on being "extreme" despite the bosses and suits and >church-ladies. Every product - from powerful four-wheel drives to tennis >shoes to lemon-lime soda pops - was presented as the cherished >accoutrement of youth rebellion, consumed to a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo or >a favourite passage from Jack Kerouac or the spicy, sassy rhymes of 1990s >street culture. Cordless drills that finally let you be yourself. Perfume >dealers who liken themselves to indigenous peoples. Software makers >determined to give power to the people. Alternative stockbrokers. > >Nike, notorious for having its shoes made _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold