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24 Here I am not asking about the new economic reality, by which w e make a large
number o f extremely small and extremely convenient purchases rather than saving up
over time for one large purchase, such as an LP. This is an interesting issue in its own
right, one which warrants analysis insofar as it is a significant change in the economic life
o f the individual, but it falls outside the scope o f this particular investigation. In
particular, the new thousand-papercuts model o f capitalism would seem rife for a
Marcusean reading.
25 Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson (New York:
Harper and Row, 1962).
26 See esp. Jurgen Habermas, The Theory o f Communicative Action , trans. Thomas
McCarthy (Cambridge: Polity, 1987). Habermas sees media as primarily ideological and
dialogue as liberating, though both are constitutive o f the individual. For Plato, see
Phaedrus, 274c-275b.
27 “From the moment that there is meaning there are nothing but signs. We think only in
signs. Which amounts to ruining the notion o f the sign at the very moment w hen...its
exigency is recognized in the absoluteness o f its right.” Jacques Derrida, O f
Grammatology, trans. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press,
1976): 50.
28 Cf. Jacobs, 356-358, concerning some tantalizing thoughts from Husserl’s Nachlasssss.
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