| Doug Henwood on 24 Aug 2000 23:51:28 -0000 |
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| [Nettime-bold] RE: <nettime> The New "Left" - OR why inequality is politicallyuseful |
McKenzie Wark wrote: >Which is why i've been writing about soap operas, game shows, pop songs -- >and the Labor party. All expressions of actual popular desire, and as such >more interesting to me that the abstract theoretical constructs of old >line leftism. The prolertariat, etc. Droll spelling of proletariat. I'm curious, though, just how soap operas and game shows are "expressions of actual popular desire," since as far as I know they're produced by show business professionals. They may stoke popular desires, but are you claiming that the corporate producers of these entertainment products are themselves authentically down with the people, or have some privileged access to their desire? And is there only one popular desire? That almost sounds like one of those abstract theoretical constructs of old line leftism. Doug _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list [email protected] http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold