Document Type
Review Essay
Abstract
[First paragraph]
The good folks at Prickly Paradigm are certainly doing their job. Their stated objective is “publishing challenging and sometimes outrageous pamphlets,” and Lehmann's short piece fulfills this claim brilliantly, evoking intellectual mood swings that span from shouting for joy at a particularly lucid formulation to shouting angrily at the deftness with which Lehmann transforms his lucidity into suspiciously wrongheaded and reactionary assessments. The clinical bipolarity of this work, as we will see, is no coincidence: it is precisely the political entanglement of the subject of mass culture (“masscult”) that leads to both respect for one's opponents and suspicion of one's allies. This process is, of course, a profoundly useful one.
Repository Citation
Ciccariello Maher, George. "On Chris Lehmann's Revolt of the Masscult." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture vol. 6, no. 2, 2006, pp. 1–10. https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol6/iss2/10
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