Administrators, soldiers, scientists, even entrepreneurs - everybody in modern society - is forced into the Procrustean bed of reification and systematically deprived of the freedom that everyone is supposed to enjoy
I have been arguing that those of us who are most critical of modern life need modernism most, to show us where we are and where we can begin to change our circumstances and ourselves. In search of a place to begin, I have gone back to one of the first and greatest of modernists, Karl Marx. I have …
Orpheus, Narcissus and Dionysus - and Baudelaire and Rilke, whom Marcuse sees as their modern votaries.
[...] Marx's point in presenting this immense and bizarre chorus is to show capitalism as a maelstrom that sweeps the whole world into its flood, past and present, reality and mythology, East and West: everything and everyone is caught up and whirled in the world market, nothing and no one has the …
