now reading

the underlying assumption of this book is 1) youtube entertainers supported Hillary Clinton 2) their bland, clearly paternalistic liberalism is helping the world

you will be unsurprised to learn that my current research is about how this is *not* the case

the last sentence made me laugh i'm sorry but... advertisers will tolerate a lot more than just affronts to civility and democracy

i know they mean like, well established youth-oriented brands... but like c'mon, what is the oil industry's entire ad budget if not an affront to democracy

I'm pretty sure this is all wrong

[internal screaming]

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wtf is this book? how can you possibly look at the complexity of the global supply chain and just-in-time production and say that it is "unorganized"

by every empirical measure this is wrong. 1987 was literally the year the stock market crashed and capital went through a phase of recentralization

went and looked up a review from 1989 of this book in the British Journal of Sociology and I'm glad I'm not the only one who immediately had the same concern

to return to a maxim of mine: Lash & Urry did not "do the work"

anyways, back to C&C: this is why I do not like how Foucault is used. You do not get to hand wave empirical dynamics and then say power is just some fuzzy contingent thing going in all kinds of ways

even Foucault would not agree with that and quite often his theory concerned the application of highly unidirectional power flows

i think this is why I find this book so frustrating. On one hand, it's a very careful acknowledgement with the relevant literature and its main conclusions, but then constantly just asserts because people can engage in self expression it's Still OK

in part, I guess the Big Ticket concept missing is hegemony, and why self expression would be meaningful in any way as a political act. That's why we cite Stuart Hall, who himself was tangling with Foucault, Raymond Williams, Althusser and Marx

China / India being the only non-capitalist core countries here says a lot. Their competitiveness is premised on their size, and it's VERY key to note that India, unlike China, does not really have a local platform industry