these now find themselves positioned in the distinct and generally incompatible spaces of the institutions of high literature and what the Frankfurt School conveniently termed the “culture industry,” that is, the apparatuses for the production of “popular” or mass culture.
I understand why there is an opposition for mass culture as it represents culture as created for consumption. But I think we constantly negate the revolutionary ability of mass culture and subculture in lieu of more “pure”—ie white and accepted into academic, pedantic spaces— culture.
Here I can set my contradiction not only with Jameson but with the Frankfurt school
