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undogmatic attention to broad theoretical issues as well as to empirical detail

they allow the spectator to experience the totality of the audiovisual thrill

but where it nonetheless continues to mean something

The Mediocracy keyword-samir-amin and his philosophically provocative useGenerating great controversy on its publication in France, The Mediocracy argues that a veritable counter revolution in intellectual life has seen the period of the master thinkers of the 1960s succeeded by an era of generalized mediocrity. Where Althusser or Lacan, Foucault or Derrida once held centre stage, today restorationist currents prevail in academia and on television. Fuelled by a complaisant media, contemporary French ideology seeks neither