Capital’s dominance is the real message of every cultural product

Evidence

That means that the expression late capitalism carries the other, cultural half of my title within it as well; not only is it something like a literal translation of the other expression, Postmodernism, its temporal index seems already to direct attention to changes in the quotidian and on the cultural level as such. To say that my two terms, the cultural and the economic, thereby collapse back into one another and say the same thing, in an eclipse of the distinction between base and superstructure that has itself often struck people as significantly characteristic of Postmodernism in the first place, is also to suggest that the base, in the third stage of capitalism, generates its superstructures with a new kind of dynamic. And this may also be what (rightly) worries the unconverted about the term; it seems to obligate you in advance to talk about cultural phenomena at least in business terms if not in those of political economy. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 32 (#expands, via linked claim)

Since money and commodities are entirely bound up with the circulation of capital, it follows that cultural forms are firmly rooted in the daily circulation process of capital. It is, therefore, with the daily experience of money and the commodity that we should begin, no matter if special commodities or even whole sign systems may be extracted from the common herd and made the basis of ‘high’ culture or that specialized ‘imaging’ which we have already had cause to comment upon. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1888 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Popular-class culture is always shaped by dominant cultural production institutions; Popular culture is simultaneously authentic and expropriated by capital, necessarily. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 281; Cultural forms are causally rooted in the daily circulation of capital. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1888 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• In late capitalism the economic base generates its cultural superstructures directly #expands (0.90) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 32
• Popular-class culture is always shaped by dominant cultural production institutions #expands (0.85)
• Cultural forms are causally rooted in the daily circulation of capital. #expands (0.85) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1888
• Popular culture is simultaneously authentic and expropriated by capital, necessarily. #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 281
• Capitalism and materialism shape a society’s entire worldview and value system #expands (0.80)
• Consumer culture degrades culture because capital takes over the powers that criticized it #expands (0.70) — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 47