Economic crisis strengthened financial control over culture rather than spawning counterculture

Evidence

The sorry state of cinema was one example of how the crisis gave financial institutions greater control over culture. This was not an obvious outcome at the time. At least on paper, the Great Recession seemed ripe for the emergence of a sixties-style counterculture. Grassroots leftist action, however, struggled to coalesce into a unified movement until Occupy Wall Street (OWS) in late 2011. — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 218

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Reversing individualised culture demands resources capital systematically strips away — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1860