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The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food,…

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Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the…
It is safest to grasp the concept of the postmodern as an attempt to think the present historically in an age that…
For when we talk about the spreading power and influence of globalization, arent we really referring to the spreading economic and military…
It is now easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
Utopia would seem to offer the spectacle of one of those rare phenomena whose concept is indistinguishable from its reality, whose ontology…
If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in…
So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to…
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its…
In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism -…
A further point is that, little by little, in the current universe, everything is slowly being named; nor does this have anything…
The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations…
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,…

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Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. In other countries, the business of laughing is… — Jean Baudrillard
American television really is pathetic. — Brian Eno
I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche somehow for a… — Toni Collette
Most of my life I was occupied with American television and American food. My ethnicity was my choice. It still is — Isaac Mizrahi
There's definitely a wave of Brits doing great work on American television, and I wouldn't mind being one of them! — Rob James-Collier
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard
Well, certainly I think American television is - that's proper TV. — Graham Norton
There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he… — Peter Ustinov
Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know… — Tom Brokaw
What I can say that's different in American television... in Britain, they wouldn't cancel something after a couple of episodes. In the… — John Barrowman
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television,… — Fredric Jameson
American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work;… — Chris Hardwick

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