The commodification era was mythologized as the organic community’s last gasp

Evidence

(It is one of those great ironies that the very historical moment when this is happening is the one which, retrospectively, was represented by the conservative parts of the culture-and-society tradition and its heirs, as the last gasp of the “organic community.”) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 915

Categorization

• CANDY: A compact, tweetable irony: nostalgia mourns the very moment market culture was born.
• XREF: connects to: Genuine folk culture was colonized and extinguished by commodification from the midnineteenth century — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 192; Nostalgic tales of community decline have recurred for two centuries — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 57
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Genuine folk culture was colonized and extinguished by commodification from the midnineteenth century — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 192; Nostalgic tales of community decline have recurred for two centuries — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 57