Funke's edited work, The Great Refusal: Herbert Marcuse and Contemporary Social Movements, delves into the historical roots and social theoretical foundations of the recent resistance through a
Marcusian lens.
Both contrasted Kropotkin's principled stand in the late nineteenth century against 'all dogmatic systems' to the politics of the 'New Left' in the 1960s, which had, despite the movement's language, 'already begun to build a new prison with its
Marcusian, Maoist, and Guevara walls'.
The downside of Decker's consistent approach is that the structure of the book becomes repetitive, especially as each chapter rigidly provides business background, the two types of reception, then applies the
Marcusian critical model before leading to the same conclusion.
Using a
Marcusian lens, I unpack key policy documents within the Merida II Initiative, and the United States Northern Command and the United States Southern Command.
M van Dijk remarks on Hidman's critique of the Internet "those who advocate the open, accessible and peer-to-peer nature of the Internet ' neglect 'the deeper linking structure of the Internet that works according to a power law: a few sites attract the vast majority of traffic while most sites draw almost no traffic.' (23) Here, Van Dijk seems to echo the old, well known
Marcusian valuation of technology as a mode of production, as the totality of instruments, devices and contrivances which characterize the machine age' and ' a mode of organization and perpetuating (or changing) social relationships, a manifestation of prevalent thought and behavior patterns, an instrument for control and domination.
The
Marcusian aspiration to pursue our own projects and pleasures has been imported into the realm of work itself.
This, too, might have been a 'Jewish' contribution to psychoanalysis, less attractive to radicals but no less heartfelt--something the
Marcusian and Lacanian critiques of American psychoanalysis have led us to forget.
I'll Give Them Unfreedom and One-Dimensional Thought: George Lucas, THX 1138, and the Persistence of
Marcusian Social Critique in American Graffiti and the Star Wars Films." Ex 50.3 (2009): 417-41.