[FRA:] From Hegel to Madonna

[Ralph Dumain]

That's old news, as far as popular culture goes.  Maybe it's 
relatively new with respect to the academic wing of the knowledge 
industry, in search of the latest intellectual fad while torturing 
students and wasting people's time.

At 02:18 PM 1/22/2009, James Rovira wrote:
>I beginning to think our real fetish is the fetish of the new.  The new
>insight, the new critique, the new development, the new concept.
>
>Jim R
>
>On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Ralph Dumain <
>rdumain at autodidactproject.org> wrote:
>
> > I don't know what to make of this, but I read that Adorno figures
> > into this analysis.
> >
> >  From Hegel to Madonna: Towards a General Economy of "Commodity
> > Fetishism" (S U N Y Series in Postmodern Culture) (Paperback)
> > by Robert Miklitsch
> >
> > 
> http://www.amazon.com/Hegel-Madonna-Commodity-Fetishism-Postmodern/dp/0791435407/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232644149&sr=1-1
> >
>. . . Miklitsch mobilizes a new, renewed understanding of
> > "commodity fetishism" . . .