The radical right of radical rights of extreme self-interest could be added to the list of pre-1968 influences.
And the aesthiticization of politics and culture was on the rise, again, then getting a toehold, now a hegemon, primarily through the supremacism of literature over the other arts, succinctly through the vaunting of criticism -- alway text, blind to other types -- then, the hypervaluation of critical theorism now, legal theory the undergirder of privileged discourse. The mutual admiration of critical theorists and lawyers and their hegemonic declaration of "a nation of laws, not of men," nicely comports the demand that literacy is must have to be a "responsible" citizen, that is a believer in writ. It is not often noted that critical theorists and lawyers are conjoined in the radical rights of extreme self-interest, indolent and duplicitous. Other hegemons pre-68 are the rise of publishing, including publish or perish employment terrorism which produced agri-businesses of printed matter of much bulk and low nourishment, volumes as well as fattened bibliographies and resumes. Perhaps most pertinent for this hangout is the rise of academies of great bulk and low nourishment which herded youngsters into forced feeding pens, still going on, under the rubric of necessity of higher education or else marginalization and you bet, terrrifying poverty. Those to whom this was done are compelled to repeat it. Yes, there were subcultures of this in the arts and sciences, learning from the success model of the BBA and MBA. 1968 was a peak aestheticization of politics without risk. That drug of pretenstiousness is still widely consumed. Ponder May 68 in France: its delirium remains insurpassable, while 68 elsewhere is imginary nostalgia of the deadhead. Pre-68 sex and rock and roll was mostly prophilactic braggardy, when exposed to the post-68 actuality, STD, AIDS and overdose cleansed the experimenters seduced by marketers, then and now aided and abetted by aged addicts practicing critical theorists peddling apologia for justice system incarceraters. In 68 youthism became the superdrug, and still is the elitism of choice for marketers of education in bulk via this very medium. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org
