id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
clogic-190910	Eid, Haidar	White Noise: Representations of (Post)modern Intelligentsia	2018	14	.pdf	application/pdf	5260	321	55	These are questions about the social character of specialized intellectual categories in (post)modern society and thus of the role of knowledge in an advanced capitalist society – as represented in White Noise.1 Antonio Gramsci’s persuasive statement that “[in] the modern world the category of intellectuals . . . Gramsci maintains that [e]very social group, coming into existence on the original terrain of an essential function in the world of economic production, creates together with itself, organically, one or more strata of intellectuals which give it 1 Edward Said asks similar questions in his article “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies and Community”: What is the role of humanistic knowledge and information if they are not to be unknowing (many ironies there) partners in commodity production and marketing, so much so that what humanists do may in the end turn out to be a quasi-religious concealment of this peculiarly unhumanistic process?	cache/clogic-190910.pdf	txt/clogic-190910.txt