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Official culture
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Official culture is the culture that receives social legitimation or institutional support in a given society. Official culture is usually identified with bourgeoisie culture. For revolutionary Guy Debord, official culture is a "rigged game", where conservative powers forbid subversive ideas to have direct access to the public discourse, and where such ideas are integrated only after being trivialized and sterilized.
A widespread observation is that a great talent has a free spirit. For instance Pushkin, which some scholar regard as Russia's first great writer, attracted the mad irritation of the Russian officialdom and particularly of the Tsar, since he
- Lisa A. Lewis (1992) The Adoring audience: fan culture and popular media. Published by Routledge, 1992 , , 245 pages.
- Guy Debord (1957) Report on the Construction of Situations. Paris.
- Hal Foster Postmodern Culture By. Pluto Press. ,
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