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Thomas Frank Quotes
Page 1 of 1Thomas Frank
1965 -
Nationality: American
Category: Author
Subcategory: American Author
|  In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for what they've done - and this is especially true in the cultural realm. | | I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances. | | In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as if people don't know what is going on. | | I was in a bad mood when I wrote that. | | What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell its products as a way of liberating oneself. | | These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries. |
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