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interventions in everyday culture

I remain of the firm conviction that everyday culture is a crucial field of political intervention. Whereas, following Adorno, I earlier believed that there is a potential of liberation to ascertain only in autonomous arts, dealing with Hegel lead me -- like with much stuff -- beyond that opinion. Whereas for most people autonomous arts do not play the role they would be able to, according only to its inner constitution, because most people simply do not have the time for the required education of taste, everyday culture is the field, within which people generate their self-perceptions, structure their subjective orders and form their identities. Critique has to be made up within the structures of actual subjectivity. The construction of self has to take place as a determinate negation of everyday life in everyday life. I think I am able to show, that cultural industries are not necessarily what Adorno called "das Immergleiche" (what means a system that states itself as perpetual by the way of its reproduction of itself), but that there are qualitative shifts into the direction of a reasonable subjectivity. According to that the reflection of pop-culture plays an important role for me even though I do not share the optimism of Benjamin and the cultural studies.

Who wants to know, what kind of cultural stuff I produced and still produce myself, should visit the following website: www.ratiophorm.net [ext].