media and new capitalism in the digital age:(2)

p19 Habermas 1970 Technology and science as "ideology." In Toward a rational society: student protest, science, and politics, 81--122. since the emergence of the Keynesian welfare state, "the role of politics is reduced to finding the technical means to achieve goals that are understood to lie outside the realm of politics" p20 "Hebermas's formulation of technology discourse as legitimation discourse carries two arguments: a general argument regarding the depoliticizing ramifications of a technologistic consciousness and a historically specific argument regarding the legitimation of capitalism in its Keyesian stage, or , in our terminology here, in its Fordist phase. This book offers both a revival of the general argument and an updating of the historically specific argument." Fraser Nancy.2003 From discipline to flexibilization? Rereading Foucault in the shadow of globalization. Constellations 10 (2): 160-71