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"Hegemony was a concept previously used by Marxists such as Lenin to
indicate the political leadership of the working-class in a democratic
revolution, but developed by Gramsci into an acute analysis to explain
why the 'inevitable' socialist revolution predicted by orthodox Marxism
had not occurred by the early 20th century. Capitalism, it seemed, was
even more entrenched than ever. Capitalism, Gramsci suggested,
maintained control not just through violence and political and economic
coercion, but also ideologically, through a hegemonic culture in which
the values of the bourgeoisie became the 'common sense' values of all.
Thus a consensus culture developed in which people in the working-class
identified their own good with the good of the bourgeoisie, and helped
to maintain the status quo rather than revolting."

Myspace being a framework for culture.. I suppose it has it's own
culture as well. It could be or is now a platform to research, design
and foist profitable culture trends on those with minds weak enough to
enjoy things they are told is trendy.

But wether not people from microsound join myspace will not change
this.

If anything arguing about myspace is a distraction from real issues.
Perhaps in the global conspiracy theory world .. this is just fodder to
keep us busy while the real plan goes down.. <rolls eyes>


--- Kim Cascone <kim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >> if free markets are so great, why does america lead the world in
> per
> >> capita prison population? in obesity? in weapons sales?
> >>
> >
> > How the HELL do any of those have ANYTHING do to with  MYSPACE?
> 
> oh my goodness...go read Adorno and Gramsci!!! 
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