The Struggle over Modernity in the U.S.: Some notes on the power of the neoconservative revolution, by Lawrence Grossberg. Intro: "A number of writers have, over the past decade, referred to the radical changes that have characterized the United States since the 1960s. Frances Fukuyama, for example, speaking of the mid-1960s through the 1990s, claims that there has been »a Great Disruption in the social values that prevailed in the industrial-age society of the mid-twentieth century,« marked at the very least by »seriously deteriorating social conditions.« I want to talk about these changes as the »unsettling« of the modernity of the United States, and the struggle to redefine that modernity." Link (Springerin main page)
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