Business ontology’s defeat of bohemia produced the Great Acceptance culture
Evidence
It seems to me that the installation of business ontology over the last thirty years has centrally involved the defeat of bohemia: art schools returning to largely being places for the privileged; the reduction of the print music press to indie Smash Hits; TV becoming populist trash or middlebrow mediocrity. The business culture of “selling yourself” (which I, like every right thinking person still regard as the height of vulgarity) has engendered the mandatory, seamless positivity that Ben and Ivor talk about: the Great Acceptance, as opposed to the Great Refusal. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 2462
Categorization
- XREF: Pays off the book-long treatment of the bohemia-working-class alliance (ch96) and Marcuse’s Great Refusal thread. Directly continues ch96’s claim about the bohemia-working-class alliance driving British culture. — connects to: Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy; A bad ontology becomes the real when it governs the world’s institutions — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 204; The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory (+3 more)
- ADDENDUM: Refers to article 3’s framework of the Great Refusal; the defeat of bohemia as ‘Great Acceptance’ is a strong companion claim to the sacrifice book’s account of rituals freezing the status quo.
Broader Connections
- A bad ontology becomes the real when it governs the world’s institutions
#corroborates(0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 204 - Lyotard naturalized capitalism’s victory as pre-human cosmic natural selection
#corroborates(0.80) — Perry Anderson, The Origins of Postmodernity, 78 - Mass culture and mass markets were integral to corporate capitalism’s ascendancy
#expands(0.78) - The sphere of exchange generates capitalism’s spontaneous commonsense and bourgeois theory
#expands(0.75) - Avant-garde norm-rejection and capitalist market expansion converged on dismantling social norms
#corroborates(0.72) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 853