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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.

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