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Portraits of Eisenhower
Author: Unknown
Year: 1952 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
Portraits of Eisenhower
Author: UnknownYear: 1952 Edit Add
Book: Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
That the existential may be absolutely distinct, as some ultimate 'false consiousness,' from the structural and social significance of a collective phenomenon, surely as a possibility rendered more plausible by the fact of global imperialism, in terms of which the meaning of a given nation-state - for everyone else on the globe - may be wildly at odds from their own inner experiences and their own interior daily life. Eisenhower wore a well-known smile for us but an equally well-known scowl for foreigners beyond our borders, as the state portraits in any U.S. consulate during those years dramatically attested.
That the existential may be absolutely distinct, as some ultimate 'false consiousness,' from the structural and social significance of a collective phenomenon, surely as a possibility rendered more plausible by the fact of global imperialism, in terms of which the meaning of a given nation-state - for everyone else on the globe - may be wildly at odds from their own inner experiences and their own interior daily life. Eisenhower wore a well-known smile for us but an equally well-known scowl for foreigners beyond our borders, as the state portraits in any U.S. consulate during those years dramatically attested.