Culture as A Market:"Is Inspiration Not for Sale?"
In the evolution of modern societies,culture is increasingly subordinated to the causes and pro-cesses of the market and capital.This subordination is becoming stronger due to the expansion of the totality of the market of simulacrum.The dominance of the simulacrum in the marketplace has resulted in the transforma-tion of the symbolic simulacrum,which has no roots,into the main object of economic transactions and all social transactions.This process of increasing subordination to the total market of simulacrum extends not only to the external but also to the internal life of culture,transforming the market of manuscripts into a"market of inspiration".