Please help me understand this: THE POST-INDUSTRIAL SIMULACRE?

Question

It has been some decades since Western culture could be accurately described as Industrial. Since the under-consumption crisis of the Thirties, we have shifted entirely into a social structure dominated not by production but by reproduction, not by equivalence but by commutation, not by merchandise but by the model. We live in a post-industrial world. A world no longer where all labor is exchanged and loses its singularity but where labor and leisure become entwined. Not a culture bought and sold but one where all cultures simulate one another. Not a place where love is prostituted but where a liberated keel sexuality is compulsory. And an era in which time is no longer accumulated like money but is broken in a confused web of nostalgia,

fetishism and futurism.

SPK has always been certain to establish its separation from any label like "industrial" because it has always pursued a strategy radically more efficient - the successor to industrial society.

Answer 1

dear, first of all fetishism is specific to all ages, it's a mental disease, secondly the futurism is specific to Modernism (the Industrial age that you mention)... so they can't bring any novelty.

thirdly, just read this article, I think what you call post-industrial, he defines as post-American

http://www.the-american-interest.com/con...