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One dimensional man

01 May 1965-Philosophical Books (Blackwell Publishing Ltd)-Vol. 6, Iss: 2, pp 17-20
About: This article is published in Philosophical Books.The article was published on 1965-05-01. It has received 2842 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the role of 11 Marxian concepts for Critical Internet Studies, including dialectics, capitalism, commodification, surplus value/exploitation/alienation/class, globalization, ideology, class struggle, commons, public sphere, and aesthetics.
Abstract: This article gives an overview of example approaches of Critical Internet Studies and points out key concepts of this field. Critical Cyberculture Studies and Critical Political Economy/Critical Theory of the Internet are identified as two approaches in Critical Internet Studies. The paper also discusses the role of 11 Marxian concepts for Critical Internet Studies. Marxian concepts that have been reflected in Critical Internet Studies include: dialectics, capitalism, commodification, surplus value/exploitation/alienation/class, globalization, ideology, class struggle, commons, public sphere, communism, and aesthetics. The paper points out the importance of explicitly acknowledging the importance of Karl Marx’s thinking in Critical Internet Studies. Marx’s concepts are today frequently used implicitly, without acknowledging and engaging with their roots. A critique of the approach of “Critical” Cyberculture Studies is advanced. This approach is compared to the approaches of Critical Theory and Critical Political Economy of the Internet. The difference between these two approaches reflects the debate about class exploitation and non-class domination between Cultural Studies and Critical Political Economy in Media and Communication Studies.

29 citations


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  • ...Technological rationality is another term for instrumental reason, which stresses “elements of thought which adjust the rules of thought to the rules of control and domination“ (Marcuse 1964b, 138)....

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  • ...Technological rationality causes a one-dimensional thinking, in which “ideas, aspirations, and objectives that, by their content, transcend the established universe of discourse and action are either repelled or reduced to terms of this universe“ (Marcuse 1964, 12)....

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  • ...It aims at “liquidating the oppositional and transcending elements“ (Marcuse 1964, 56)....

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze the contribution of the Psicologia Social al estudio de la ciencia, revisando 457 referencias bibliograficas and ofreciendo una clasificación tematica of the trabajos realizados, organizados in two grandes categorias, psicología social of la cientícia mainstream and psicology social de la Ciencia critica.
Abstract: Los Estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnologia son una de las areas de investigacion mas importantes en ciencias sociales. La psicologia y la psicologia social contribuyen tambien al desarrollo de esa area. Este articulo analiza la contribucion de la Psicologia Social al estudio de la ciencia, revisando 457 referencias bibliograficas y ofreciendo una clasificacion tematica de los trabajos realizados, organizados en dos grandes categorias, psicologia social de la ciencia mainstream y psicologia social de la ciencia critica. En la primera, los temas han sido: el caracter normativo de la actividad cientifica, los procesos de influencia social, los procesos de comparacion social, los sistemas de valores y de creencias, la etica de la investigacion cientifica, y el contexto organizacional e institucional de la investigacion cientifica. En la segunda: el binomio ciencia e ideologia y la ciencia como retorica y practica discursiva. El articulo plantea finalmente una discusion sobre las caracteristicas generales de la psicologia social de la ciencia y las posibles lineas de continuidad de esta area de investigacion.

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  • ...Incluso se ha considerado que la ciencia puede ser una ideología (Marcuse, 1964; Habermas, 1970)....

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TL;DR: The work of Emile Durkheim on the problematics of business ethics and the impact of a culture of self-interest on the stability of society, work that has hitherto been neglected by the business ethics community, acquires a new relevance as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Over the last twenty years the organization of business activity appears to have shifted from an emphasis on bureaucratic organizations toward an emphasis on market structures. Economic self-interest has acquired a new social legitimacy, and the force of traditional moral authorities has waned. In these circumstances the work of Emile Durkheim on the problematics of business ethics and the impact of a culture of self-interest on the stability of society, work that has hitherto been neglected by the business ethics community, acquires a new relevance. In this paper we review Durkheim's problematization of business ethics, establish its relevance for the contemporary world, and use it to develop an empirical research agenda for the contemporary sociology of business ethics.

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TL;DR: This article examined representations of women's desire in Tamil cinema, from highly implicit and non-transgressive representations of desire in an older movie to linguistically explicit and transgressive representations in a recent hit movie, and examined how such contemporary filmic representations are related to a mode of realist spectatorship, and how this mode of spectatorship is linked to a particular social group (male youth) and to film form.
Abstract: This article first examines representations of women's desire in Tamil cinema, from highly implicit and non-transgressive representations of desire in an older movie to linguistically explicit and transgressive representations of desire in a recent hit movie. We then examine how such contemporary filmic representations are related to what we call a mode of realist spectatorship, and how this mode of spectatorship is linked to a particular social group (male youth) and to film form. We argue that the emergence of this mode of spectatorship, the films associated with it, and their connection to male youth are due to changes in the film market and to differential socialization by generation. Finally, we argue for realism in film as holding when film form and spectatorship are highly calibrated in the following way: some set of filmic representations are evaluated by viewers and filmmakers through culturally mediated classifications of "real" and "unreal" which are operationalized truth-functionally in events of evaluation; such representations presuppose these classifications, and by virtue of regular presupposition can entail an experience of "reality" for viewers.

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  • ...A common viewpoint encountered by film researchers in Tamil Nadu is the disparagement of popular film as a “mass society” cultural form (cf. its Euro-American counterpart, Horkheimer and Adorno 1976 [1944]; Marcuse 1964; see Bennett 1982)....

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Daniel Hausknost1
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a conceptual framework for the analysis of the agentic deadlock in environmental politics in liberal democracies and its structural root causes, building on the analytic distinction between three "agentic operators": decision, choice, and solution.
Abstract: The combined challenges of climate change and resource depletion demand a rapid socioecological transition on a global scale. However, environmental politics in liberal democracies is caught in an ‘agentic deadlock’ inhibiting the implementation of effective transformative measures. I offer a conceptual framework for the analysis of this agentic deadlock and its structural root causes, building on the analytic distinction between three ‘agentic operators’ – decision, choice, and solution – which connects the analysis of agency with the analysis of structural constraints in liberal democracies, enabling us to understand better why agency channelled through the market or institutions of administrative rationality generates very different outcomes than agency channelled through institutions of collective decision making. While market (choice) and administrative rationality (solution) approaches are more in line with the specific needs of liberal-democratic regime stabilisation, decision-centred approaches ha...

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.
Abstract: The problem of false consciousness and its relationship to the social structure of tourist establishments is analyzed. Accounts of travelers are examined in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction. It is found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences. It is also found that tourist settings are arrenged to produce the impression that a back region has been entered even when this is not the case. In tourist settings, between the front and the back there is a series of special spaces designed to accommodate tourists and to support their beliefs in the authenticity of their experiences. Goffman's front-back dichotomy is shown to be ideal poles of a continuum, or a variable.

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01 Jan 1995
TL;DR: Casey as discussed by the authors explored the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self and found that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism.
Abstract: Despite recent interest in the effects of restructuring and redesigning the work place, the link between individual identity and structural change has usually been asserted rather than demonstrated. Through an extensive review of data from field work in a multi-national corporation Catherine Casey changes this. She knows that changes currently occuring in the world of work are part of the vast social and cultural changes that are challenging the meta trends of modern industrialism. These events affect what people do everyday, and they are altering relations among ourselves and with the physical world. This valuable book is not only a critical analysis of the transformations occurring in the world of work, but an exploration of the effects of contemporary practices of work on the self.

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01 Jun 2009-City
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors interpret critical urban theory with reference to four mutually interconnected elements: its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible.
Abstract: What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post‐1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social–theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School social philosophers, this paper interprets critical theory with reference to four, mutually interconnected elements—its theoretical character; its reflexivity; its critique of instrumental reason; and its emphasis on the disjuncture between the actual and the possible. On this basis, a brief concluding section considers the status of urban questions within critical social theory. In the early 21st century, I argue, each of the four key elements within critical social theory requires sustained engagement with contemporary patterns of capitalist urbanization. Under conditions of increasingly generalized, worldwide urbanization, the project of critical social theory and that of critical urban theory have been intertwined a...

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TL;DR: The authors provide an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature, including self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of the key images of identity in organizations found in the research literature. Image refers to the overall idea or conceptualization, capturing how researchers relate to — and shape — a phenomenon. Seven images are suggested: self-doubters, strugglers, surfers, storytellers, strategists, stencils and soldiers. These refer to how the individual is metaphorically understood in terms of identity, that is, how the researcher (research text) captures the individual producing a sense of self. The article aims to facilitate orientation — or encourage productive confusion — within the field, encourage reflexivity and sharpen analytic choices through awareness of options for how to conceptualize self-identity constructions.

289 citations