Media outage, not capitalist contradiction, could disintegrate the established system

Evidence

The non-functioning of television and the allied media might thus begin to achieve what the inherent contradictions of capitalism did not achieve—the disintegration of the system. The creation of repressive needs has long since become part of socially necessary labor—necessary in the sense that without it, the established mode of production could not be sustained. Neither problems of psychology nor of aesthetics are at stake, but the material base of domination. — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 853

Categorization

• XREF: Direct link to the reading purpose: consumption-as-control, the material base of domination, attention economy as infrastructure.
• DEEPTHINKING: Repressive needs as ‘socially necessary labor’ of the mode of production is a paradigm shift in how domination is understood to be sustained.
• SEED: Essay angle: repressive-need production as infrastructure—compare to the trees-as-infrastructure piece.