Organizations and Markets

Sometimes I Wish I Were a Professor of “Critical Studies”

7 September 2006 at 1:57 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment

| Peter Klein |

Then I could write sentences like this:

Gang of Four locate their Marxist theory in the Althusserian notion of expressing resistance through the contradictions inherent in the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) of the corporate-controlled rock music industry, and the way in which Gang of Four express their theory of Marxist thought is by inducing in the listener an alternative consciousness achieved through contradictions and disorientations that serve to mirror the very sense of disorientation and contradiction that capitalistic consciousness creates.

The reference is to the pop group group Gang of Four, not this Gang of Four (or, for that matter, this one). I suppose the analysis is deep, in a critical studies kind of way. (Crooked Timber has all the gory details.)

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