Re: Re: RE: Re: Dallas Smythe student

[Eugene Coyle <eugenecoyle@xxxxxxx>]

Hey, I got my hair streaked gold last week!  It doesn 't show up much on
white though.  And the stylist assured me it would wash out, which it
did.  But I still don't understand why ANY criticism of consumption
makes the critic a hair-shirter.

Gene Coyle

Doug Henwood wrote:

> Forstater, Mathew wrote:
>
> >Tom writes:
> >
> >>The anxiety isn't over pleasure and sensuality per se, but over the
> >>commodification of pleasure and sensuality
> >
> >this is Smythe's view, in my understanding.
>
> Mine too. But in all the analyses of this genre I've seen - and along
> with Jhally, I'm thinking of things like Adbusters, the Rev Billy, a
> lot of the Pacifica audience - I don't see anything like the careful
> distinctions that Mandel makes. What I see in the anti-commercial
> gang is just the kind of asceticism that Mandel criticized in
> orthodox Marxists, though without the class angle.
>
> My friend Carrie McLaren, who publishes the 'zine StayFree
> <http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/index.html>, isn't quite out there
> with the hair-shirters, but she does have a streak of it. She was
> alarmed to hear that a mutual friend had dyed her hair. I think
> dyeing hair is just fine (though I haven't taken it up yet). I'll bet
> a lot of the Buy Nothing people don't like makeup either. I'll bet a
> lot of PEN-Lers don't approve of makeup or stylish clothes either.
>
> Doug