substantively believable narrative in their quest for empire. The
fate of the crew and the mutineers on the Bounty developed as a
result of intense hate that was generated out of the impoverished
myth of liberalism and the squalid conditions and harsh
discipline. When faced with the prospect of a non-liberal,
exotic, proto-socialist society in Tahiti, the myth was
demolished and evaporated into the clean clear air of the South
Pacific. The mass cultural production of this false consciousness
sent many workers to their deaths holding fast to their dreams of
a capitalist heaven when indeed there had never been one in the
first place.
References
Alexander, Caroline. 2003. The Bounty: The true Story of the
Mutiny on the Bounty. Harper Perennial.
Bligh, William and Edward Christian. The Bounty Mutiny. New York:
Penguin Books, 2001.
Cook, Deborah. 1996. The Culture Industry Revisited: Adorno on
Mass Culture. New York. Rowman & Littlefield.
Dallmayr, Fred (1997) “The Politics of Nonidentity: Adorno,
Postmodernism and Edward Said” Political Theory 25, 1:33-56.
Nordhoff, Charles and James Norman Hall. Mutiny on the Bounty.
Boston: Back Bay Books, 2003.
Phelan, Shane (1993) “Interpretation & Domination: Adorno & the
Habermas-Lyotard Debate” Polity 25, 4:597-616.
Schweiker, William (2003) “Theological Ethics and the Question of
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