Modern cultural authority lacks the institutional center it once had

Evidence

Today, the “spiritual” which is detaching itself from the “temporal”, and distinguishing itself as autonomous of the latter, is something disorganic, lacking a centre, an unstable diaspora of great cultural personalities, “without a Pope” and without a territory. — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1005

Categorization

• DEFINE: Gramsci defines the modern condition of culture as a ‘diaspora without a Pope’ — the disorganization of intellectual authority after its medieval institutional anchoring.
• XREF: Connects to later Islamophobia readings on how intellectual authority fragments under multiculturalism and post-secular modernity.