tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post7617547324448657132..comments2024-03-27T18:45:16.950-07:00Comments on Fickle Ears: Individualism and NonconformityStefan Kachttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-60472276491688321532022-06-27T17:15:38.234-07:002022-06-27T17:15:38.234-07:00B. Ricardo Brown
Lecture Eight – The Origins of Cu...B. Ricardo Brown<br><br /><a href="http://culturalstudieslectures.blogspot.com/2012/03/lecture-eight-origins-of-cultural.html?m=1" rel="nofollow">Lecture Eight – The Origins of Cultural Studies in the U.K.</a><br /><br /><i>"Adorno’s critique was directed at the middle and not the working class. he makes it explicitly in his discussion of the Nazi appropriation of Wagner and his music. ... Adorno argues that Wagner’s music was available for the Nazis’ appropriation and promotion precisely because music was no longer being performed by the middle classes, but rather consumed. During the time when Wagner’s music could be played by amateurs in their parlors, its authoritarian aspects could be recognized and resisted through the performance. When, however, music became not an activity in the parlor or porch but rather a spectacle of the theater, the relation of the audience to the music obviously shifted. As a passive consumer of the music – as what might be called a hearer as opposed to an active listener – the audience could only encounter the music at the level that Nazi ideology demanded."</i>Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-54566688821552215622022-06-20T17:31:11.166-07:002022-06-20T17:31:11.166-07:00John Wertheimer
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Mutual Film Reviewed: The M...John Wertheimer<br />"<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/845372" rel="nofollow"><br />Mutual Film Reviewed: The Movies, Censorship, and Free Speech in Progressive America</a>"<br />(1993)<br /><br /><i>""It cannot be put out of view," Justice McKenna wrote, "that the exhibition of moving pictures is a business, pure and simple, originated and conducted for profit." As such, movies were "not to be regarded, nor [were they] intended to be regarded by the Ohio Constitution, we think, as part of the press of the country. ...<br />...<br />"At the time, the Court's decision in the </i>Mutual Film<i> case met with general if not universal approval from the legal community."</i><br />(p. 160)<br /><br /><i>"In English law, from which American law derived, advance censorship of theaters and shows was both widely practiced and widely accepted for centuries prior to 1915."</i><br />(p. 161)<br /><br /><i>"the Mutual's lawyers' faith in the American heritage of liberty was blind. The American past was replete with prior restraints on theatrical expression. Moreover, and just as significantly, prior to the Mutual Film Corporation's lawyers themselves, scarcely anyone in America had thought to argue that the governmental control of public amusements raised constitutional free-speech issues."</i><br />(p. 162)<br /><br />(<a href="https://fickleears.blogspot.com/2022/06/john-wertheimermutual-film-reviewed.html" rel="nofollow">more</a>)Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32978906.post-38862595266440625232021-12-23T16:53:05.883-08:002021-12-23T16:53:05.883-08:00Christopher Lasch
The World of Nations (1973)
Ch....Christopher Lasch<br><br /><i>The World of Nations</i> (1973)<br /><br />Ch. XVII, "The Social Thought of Jacques Ellul"<br /><br /><i>"Marx never propounded any such thing as "dialectical materialism"—that was the contribution of Engels, who sought to establish the scientific credentials of Marxism according to the positivist standard of scientific truth that had come to prevail at the end of the nineteenth century. Marx was not a determinist; he did not deny the element of human will in history; he made no easy assumptions about the inevitability of progress; nor did he equate social progress with technology."</i><br /><br />(p. 271 footnote)<br /><br />(<a href="http://fickleears.blogspot.com/2021/12/laschon-ellul.html" rel="nofollow">more</a>)Stefan Kachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03103517356905739209noreply@blogger.com