Social:Official culture

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Short description: Marxist term for culture receiving social legitimation in society

Official culture is a term used in Marxist circles for the culture that they consider is receiving social legitimation or institutional support in a given society.[1] According to Marxists, "official culture" is usually identified with bourgeoisie culture.[2] For French Marxist theorist Guy Debord, official culture is a "rigged game", where "conservative powers" forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse, and where such ideas are integrated only after being trivialized, and sterilized.[3]

Proponents state that a widespread observation is that a great talent has a free spirit. For instance Pushkin, regarded by some scholars as Russia's first great writer,[4] infuriated Russian officialdom and particularly the Tsar, since

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Notes

  1. ↑ Lewis (1992) p.31
  2. ↑ Foster (1995) p.vii
  3. ↑ Debord (1957) pp.2, 10
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Vladimir Nabokov (1981) Lectures on Russian Literature, lecture on Russian Writers, Censors, and Readers, pp.13-4

References

  • Lisa A. Lewis (1992) The Adoring audience: fan culture and popular media. Published by Routledge, 1992 ISBN 0-415-07821-0, ISBN 978-0-415-07821-4, 245 pages.
  • Guy Debord (1957) Report on the Construction of Situations. Paris.
  • Hal Foster Postmodern Culture By. Pluto Press. ISBN 0-7453-0003-0, ISBN 978-0-7453-0003-0