late capitalism's bleeding edge.

[Bruno]

In sociology there are many who use it --- Anthony Giddens, Jurgen Habermas
et al --- without precising its meaning. There's a debate on what should be
the best therm to describe capitalism after information technology
increased power over time. Post-industrial life, post-modernism, late
capitalism, information society, globalization... all may have their
nuances, though they share a common meaning as well.

2017-05-02 6:22 GMT-05:00 Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:

> I am going out on a thick Teutonic limb to declare, with hardly  a hint of
> circumstantial evidence even, that our author
> got the phrase from Werner Sombart, mentioned within.   Not Mandel nor any
> of those Marxist epigones.
>
> I say provocatively that Max Weber wasn't a one-off as a deep
> sociologist/cultural historian---the deepest?--from whom TRP developed his
> wide and deep perspective on the history of the West (and East for that
> matter). Even I know that there were more than two
> great German thinkers in that era when the basic depth charges and
> discipline were being formed. ......I bet he read more than just Weber.
> I can see him inhaling the words, taking some notes even...outlining the
> arguments and insights (maybe) on his engineering
> pad. (Or maybe not, maybe just some underlining? )
>
> German sociology was like Greek drama then; German sociology was like
> Latin American Magical Realism in the sixties, so to speak.
>
> He makes too much sport of pure Marxism, whatever that is, throughout his
> work, to have spent much time on the Mandels, in my
> arrogant judgment. Maybe some Engels hisself, but........too damn literal
> for a novelist of ideas, I repeat for the first time.
>
> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 5:11 PM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> It is interesting to see the term has such a long history. I've always
>> associated it with 60s socialists - Mandel and company. Always struck me as
>> an overly optimistic term, who's to say capitalism hasn't got some hundreds
>> of years to go before it can be cast off.
>>
>> On 01-May-17 8:59 PM, Jade Becker wrote:
>>
>> I think I remember David Foster Wallace alluding to this sort of
>> cultural/economic turn in "E Unibus Pluram: Television and U.S. Fiction"
>> essay, which was just great and mind-altering for me.
>>
>> On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 12:53 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/05/late-ca
>>> pitalism/524943/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>>
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