Is there room for critics in a Market Society? (Part I)
Anton Ego, the epicene food critic of Pixar's Ratatouille.Since the seeming "triumph" of capitalism with the fall of the Berlin Wall, our modes of cultural discourse have, almost unconsciously, bowed more and more to the authority of the market. Not that the collapse of that particular barricade was proof positive of any such historic consummation (whatever Francis Fukuyama - or Pink Floyd! - may have thought).…