Assessing a Revolution

Baudrillard, Unproductive Expenditure, and the Legacy of the 1960s

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ID6141844
AuthorsStanley Raffel (corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume6
Issue3
Pages303-318
Publication date2010-09-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2752/175174310x12750685679672
OpenAlexW2078603118
LanguageEN
References cited11

This article seeks to develop the significance of the 1960s as a period of cultural revolution. Early Baudrillard is treated as the cultural revolution's equivalent to Marx. The idea of unproductive expenditure is seen as the era's central idea. having discussed, as does Baudrillard, typical 1960s' phenomena as examples of unproductive expenditure, the question of the eventual fate of the cultural revolution is explored. The article analyzes 1980s' and 1990s' phenomena as the unintended results of what the 1960s initiated. Finally, we suggest some positive lessons that can be utilized in contemporary debates if we are prepared to moderate typical 1960s extremism

Aesthetics · Cultural revolution · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Industrial Revolution · Neoclassical economics · Period (music · Political science · Positive economics · Unintended consequences · American Political and Social Dynamics · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Cultural Studies and Postmodernism · Law · Philosophy

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