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From: "LaoHu" <laohu-AT-mchsi.com>
Subject: Re info on Marcuse and Adorno: The Fully Administered Society
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 14:50:24 -0500


 
Hi!

You might have a look at Lindsay Waters "Enemies of Promise: Publishing,
Perishing, and the Eclipse of Scholarship" Prickly Paradigm Press (Chicago
2004). Especially starting on page 13 ("The Growth of an Administrative
Class") he talks about these issues and what he sees (rightly, in my view)
as their deletrious effects. But he circles back on this matter of the
cancerous metastasis of an administrative overclass into every organ of the
universities at several other points in his short text, or pamphlet. I got
my copy at Amazon.

Hope that helps.

laohu

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Cc: Lou F. Caton

Subject: info on Marcuse and Adorno: The Fully Administered Society

 

Dear list-serv,

I'm working on an article about the phrase "the fully administered society"
in advanced industrial states intersects with corporate theme parks in
Disney World and Las Vegas. I'm guessing that the phrase originally came
from both Marcuse and Adorno; however, I'm having difficulty finding exact
locations in their works. Is it too broad a term for specific scrutiny? In
other words, does it show up so often and in so many different guises that
it can't be usefully isolated in particular works or sections of works? If
that's the case, then would I be better off just reading, say, _One
Dimensional Man_ and pulling the concept together piecemeal? In terms of
Adorno, what's the single best text for him regarding the phrase? Also, if
anyone knows of edited collections or any secondary pubs on this notion, I'd
appreciate hearing about them, as well. As always, many thanks for some
great list-serv members and apologies for any cross-postings.

Lou Caton

Westfield State College

lcaton-AT-wsc.ma.edu

 

 

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