Post by Admin on Jan 27, 2015 1:22:59 GMT
Firms that invest in patron make use of the press and oblige it to mention and praise them. In a very general sense, economic leverage is exerted on cultural production largely through the medium of the press, particularly through the seduction it exerts over producers - especially the most heteronomous - and through its contrition to the commercial success of works. p.19.
IN a book entitled Produire lĀ“opinion, Patrick Champagne shows, that successful protests are not necessarily those that mobilise the most people, but those that interest the most journalists. Exaggerating somewhat, we could sat that fifty shrewd people, capable of staging a successful happening that gets 5 minutes of television airtime, can have as great a political effect as 500,000 protesters. p.23 Its seems to me that the journalistic.mundane critique of cultural relativism telescopes two oppositions: between high and low culture on the one hand and between the West and the rest of the world or, more precisely, the East on the other. p.63
(does it mean that, in order to be independent from private or public patronage - that is sponsorship from corporations or from the government - to have freedom from economic and political power - the cultural producer has to become its own generator for finical means, would that be then like Zizek becoming a brand that will sell and make profit, while having the ultimate freedom of whatever he wants to say without having to work for anything else?)
Between the two extremes (of people who agree or disagree to something) exists a sizeable audience that is curious and without fixed opinions (younger generation and teenagers). It is in this group that one finds people who are prepared to reexamine the provisional positions they hold. Generally speaking, they match the target group of marketing and public relations experts whose job it is to expand the market for a product of for a certain opinion. p.88
IN a book entitled Produire lĀ“opinion, Patrick Champagne shows, that successful protests are not necessarily those that mobilise the most people, but those that interest the most journalists. Exaggerating somewhat, we could sat that fifty shrewd people, capable of staging a successful happening that gets 5 minutes of television airtime, can have as great a political effect as 500,000 protesters. p.23 Its seems to me that the journalistic.mundane critique of cultural relativism telescopes two oppositions: between high and low culture on the one hand and between the West and the rest of the world or, more precisely, the East on the other. p.63
(does it mean that, in order to be independent from private or public patronage - that is sponsorship from corporations or from the government - to have freedom from economic and political power - the cultural producer has to become its own generator for finical means, would that be then like Zizek becoming a brand that will sell and make profit, while having the ultimate freedom of whatever he wants to say without having to work for anything else?)
Between the two extremes (of people who agree or disagree to something) exists a sizeable audience that is curious and without fixed opinions (younger generation and teenagers). It is in this group that one finds people who are prepared to reexamine the provisional positions they hold. Generally speaking, they match the target group of marketing and public relations experts whose job it is to expand the market for a product of for a certain opinion. p.88