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Bohemia Revisited

By Chris Barsanti

Mainstream commodification of alternative culture hardly seems noteworthy these days. While it may be infuriating to see corporations routinely boost their profits by mining rebellion from the fringe and repackaging it for the middlebrow, how are you going to stop TimeWarner, short of taking over its Manhattan offices and hauling the suits off in tumbrels? Instead of spewing bile, Vanderbilt sociology… return to article

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    “Mainstream commodification of alternative culture hardly seems noteworthy these days. While it may be infuriating to see corporations routinely boost their profits by mining rebellion from the fringe and repackaging it for the middlebrow, how are you going to stop TimeWarner, short of taking over its Manhattan offices and hauling the suits off in tumbrels?”

    Infuriating? Why would anyone think that? To me, it seems like a pretty good thing. . .

    United States Posted by wolf on Nov 10, 2005 at 6:26 PM
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