One dimensional man
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...Modern technological rationality declares that the ‘empirically observed thing is the only reality’ (i.e., cannot detect alternative social futures within the present) (Feenberg, 2005b: 87), and sees nature as ‘stuff of control and organization’ (Marcuse, 1964: 153)....
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...…capitalism and its new forms of social control, like media and information technologies, allow for a smoother reproduction of the expansion of the accumulation process by fashioning automotive-like passive consumer-workers who believe (correctly) that conformity is useful (Marcuse, 1964: 2)....
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...As observed by Marcuse (1964) and Debord (1983), the ruling class controls the mass media and communication and therefore has great power to perpetuate ideology – strategically concealing how the institutions they are promoting benefit them at the expense of others....
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...…between what is actual and what is possible in his explanation for one-dimensionality: by levelling the tension between ‘the given and the possible’ (Marcuse, 1964: 8), consumermonopoly capitalism and its new forms of social control, like media and information technologies, allow for a smoother…...
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...For Habermas (1989, 1998), as well as for the entire Frankfurt School (see, for example, Horkheimer, 1983; Marcuse, 1964), one of the problems of modernity is that moral and values rationality is increasingly eroded....
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...Each instance of such moral muting reinforces the cultural privatization of morality and the hegemony of instrumental reason that Marcuse (1964) called ‘onedimensional’ thought....
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...…forms of creativity that are antagonistic to the straitened world of the commodity, which downgrades free 292 David Inglis and John Hughson expression of the self in favour of consumption of consumer delights, a form of action which diminishes and degrades that self in the process (Marcuse, 1964)....
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