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+ | Giles Scott-Smith (2002) 'The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and Post-War American Hegemony', London: Routledge. | ||
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+ | Argues that the CCF arose at a time when the traditional position of the autonomous critical intellectual was under threat from the demands of political conformism in the east and west, and was in a sense a response to these conditions, but he also argues this from Gramsci's notion of the role of the 'intellectual' within the construction and maintenance of hegemony: | ||
+ | "This recognises cultural-intellectual activity as essentially connected to, and crucially involved with, the material conditions of society." (p13) |
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In Shell Ad in encounter Shell are based in 'the Shell centre' — Downstream Building: now who could be based there???
Giles Scott-Smith (2002) 'The Politics of Apolitical Culture: The Congress for Cultural Freedom, the CIA and Post-War American Hegemony', London: Routledge.
Argues that the CCF arose at a time when the traditional position of the autonomous critical intellectual was under threat from the demands of political conformism in the east and west, and was in a sense a response to these conditions, but he also argues this from Gramsci's notion of the role of the 'intellectual' within the construction and maintenance of hegemony: "This recognises cultural-intellectual activity as essentially connected to, and crucially involved with, the material conditions of society." (p13)