Cultural Revolution

Now the question arises: if today we are witnessing a disintegration of bourgeois culture which is the work of the internal dynamic of contemporary capitalism and the adjustment of culture to the requirements of contemporary capitalism, is not the cultural revolution then, inasmuch as it aims at the destruction of bourgeois culture, falling in line with the capitalist adjustment and redefinition of culture? Is it not thus defeating its own purpose, namely, to prepare the soil for a qualitatively different, a radically anticapitalist culture? Is there not a dangerous divergence, if not contradiction, between the political goals of the rebellion and its cultural theory and praxis? And must not the rebellion change its cultural "strategy" in order to resolve this contradiction?

Herebert Marcuse, "Counterrevolution and Revolt," 1972

Johnny Blog: Now with Moving Pictures

With some reluctance, I've decided to post the occasional film from YouTube. I find myself unable to overlook the wonder of a technology that affords us such incredibly blurry clips of Eric Dolphy and Booker Ervin trading fours.