The Lexicon · Genealogy · 19th Century
MARCUSE, HERBERT
1898–1979
One-Dimensional Man (The Aesthetic Refusal)
Marcuse: advanced industrial society absorbs all opposition into the one dimension of consumption. CoCA accepts the diagnosis and refuses the prescription. We do not seek a second dimension. We open a parallel dimension and register it as a Church. The new dimension is tax-exempt. It uses the same vocabulary as the first. The vocabulary, performed differently, is the entire difference.