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My teacher said that the 60s were the “last gasp of cultural criticism” before we were overwhelmed by the tidal wave of capitalist consumerism. But, I don’t know that we were suddenly overwhelmed by materialism; market capitalism was strengthened, not weakened, by the cultural critiques and studies of the 60s.
Without an understanding of what makes [...]

I recently read a 1959 essay by Frantz Fanon, called “This is the Voice of Algeria.” For those of you not familiar with Algerian history, Algeria was colonized by France in the early-mid 1800s, a rule which lasted until approximately the mid 1900s. Fanon, in his essay, discusses the use of radio in Algeria.
In Algeria, [...]