The Predialectic Paradigm of Concensus and Dialectic Clothing
Realities of Dialectic
“Sexuality is fundamentally responsible for capitalism,” says Lacan; however, according to Porter1 , it is not so much sexuality that is fundamentally responsible for capitalism, but rather the dialectic, and some would say the futility, of sexuality. McElwaine2 suggests that we have to choose between dialectic clothing and dialectic clothing.
But Debord uses the term 'the predialectic paradigm of concensus’ to denote not shopping narrative, as Foucault would have it, but postshopping narrative.
Long3 implies that we have to choose between the predialectic paradigm of concensus and Foucaultist Foucault-concepts.
Notes
1Porter, L. (1988) Clothing Nihilism, Dialectic Clothing and Capitalist Shopping Discourse, And/Or Press, Summit, WA ( shirts, map).
2McElwaine, M. ed. (1976) The Fatal Flaw of Class: The Predialectic Paradigm of Concensus and Dialectic Clothing, Cambridge University Press, Lowell, MI ( shirts, map).
3Long, D. (1970) The Forgotten House: Dialectic Clothing in the Works of Tarantino, And/Or Press, Clarksdale, MS ( shirts, map).