Prickly Paradigm #7
Revolt of the Masscult
Chris Lehmann

We live in an age of "popular culture," an organic mess of marketing strategies aimed at giving us the illusion of choice. From Oprah Winfrey's Book Club to presidential politics, however, distinctions of taste are more accurately understood to be "blunt instruments of antidemocratic elitism." So argues Chris Lehmann, in a discussion that ranges over the work of Edward Shils, Clement Greenberg, and Jonathan Franzen with equal ease. This pamphlet is an impassioned plea for the rebirth of culture with content.

ISBN: 0-9717575-7-7
79 pages
$10.00