As much as I appreciate Reed and the nonsite crew, and as enlightening as I found this discussion, I also found it disappointing. Reed & Co. don't have a cohesive theory of the PMC, but rather an eclectic and ad hoc analysis, and see that as a strength.https://nonsite.org/feature/n1-and-the-pmc-a-debate-about-moving-on?fbclid=IwAR0dfE6B1vLxbqnYpFSWPtMPAc0rpLZc_AParj8imkr8zMSiMJ-y7TIcOKY …
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The best and most comprehensive political-economic theory of the PMC remains Alvin Gouldner's "The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class" and his subsequent "Against Fragmentation". I hope, though I am far less than confident, these works will be rediscovered.
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Gouldner draws on earlier New Class theories to explain the PMC in a concrete materialist framework, but one which is dissonant with classical materialist understandings. The PMC are undeniably workers, but they are *bourgeois* workers deriving their income from cultural capital.pic.twitter.com/eNvuanqNcS
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This is a highly discomforting analysis. I suppose that may well speak to its insight.
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