It tends to be the case that the capitalism we imagine in this debate is one from a 1970s or 1980s that never actually was: one where capitalism handed down cultural commodities in their refined and finished form, one in which the relationship between cultural producers and consumers was largely one-way, and where "resistance" meant posing creativity, autonomy, individuality, networks and new forms of affinity against a capitalism imagined to be largely monolithic, didactic, compulsory, hierarchical and banal.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 361