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    Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s article The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception capitalists control the masses through media outlets such as radio‚ movies‚ television. Through technology the elite gain power of people and economically dominate the subservient (Adorno & Horkheimer‚ 1944‚ p.2). Adorno believed leisure time should have been used to enlighten and educate oneself and the culture industry was polluting these intentions. Adorno and Horkheimer expressed how the Culture Industry

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    "Adorno and the autonomy of art" Adorno and the autonomy of art Andy Hamilton Durham University · Adornoʼs unique brand of Western Marxism‚ in which the ideals of art for artʼs sake and absolute music remain salient‚ presents a complex and elusive treatment of the autonomy of art‚ which it is the task of this article to examine. It may seem puzzling how any kind of Marxist could believe in the autonomy of art. Autonomy is normally taken to mean that art is governed by its own rules

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    well-known member of the Frankfurt School was Theodore Adorno who believed that a dominated culture industry used technology of mass production to have power over society because it served economic interests. The chapeter called The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception depicts Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s perception on the culture industry. Within this chapter‚ Adorno and Horkheimer state that capitalistic society’s culture industry has betrayed itself by allowing contributory logic

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    Adorno and Cultural Theory Adorno argues that Capitalism provides society with the products of a ’culture industry’ in order to keep them passive to their positions and prevent them from questioning it. Capitalism uses culture as a way of securing the status quo - by providing society with the norms and values of the dominant class. Popular culture is the reason for society being passive towards their positions and uninterested in overthrowing the capitalist system - through ’reminding’ them

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    The  Culture  Industry:  Enlightenment   as  Mass  Decep9on   Adorno  and  Horkheimer   The  dudes   Theodor  Adorno   Max  Horkheimer   Frankfurt  School   Enlightenment  is  progress?   America  has  huge  produc9ve  capacity   in  1940s   The  Culture  Industry   •  Describes  the  industrial  condi9ons  in  which   culture  is  being  produced

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    By reading Mark’s article‚ “Reparations Reconsidered: A Reminder” the main points become evident once she speaks of the “reparations” imposed by the allies on the Germans after Germany’s defeat in WW1. Mark’s begins her article with the discussion of a session in December of 1968 between the American Historical Association “AHA” . Professor Gerhard Weinberg‚ of the AHA says that “the entire history of German reparations needs to be restudied” (356). Throughout the post-war world‚ everyone was quite

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    Anyone wanting to start an argument among a group of English teachers has only to ask: "How do you feel about teaching five-paragraph essays?" Some in the group may smile‚ but others will be quick to voice disapproval: "They’re artificial." "They suppress individual expression." "They produce lifeless writing." Those kinds of accusations and more appeared in the most influential writing-theory book of the 1970s: Uptaught‚ by Ken MacRorie. A single word from that book—"Engfish"—was

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    In this essay I am going to analyse of Adorno and Horkheimer ’s Dialectic of Enlightenment‚ I will use various texts and ideas including George Orwell ’s 1984 and Weber ’s theory of Disenchantment‚ to criticise the extract and outline the relationship between film/literary representation and the real world. Adorno and Horkheimer ’s view on art within the extract can be interpreted as both positive and negative‚ they use words which are open to interpretation such as ’enchantment ’‚ ’magic ’

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    relationship to the situation of art. This concept and its dialectical...complications/implications is absolutely fundamental to Adorno’s philosophy in general‚ especially in relation to a motif of failed (or aborted) revolutions and their relation to what Adorno occasionally refers to as the aging of modernity. Whither Adorno’s account of the "resistance to the new”? For him‚ any and all traditionalisms‚ including the outright atavisms that he finds within fascism (the concomitant to its technology loving

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    Quote 1: In the culture industry the notion of genuine style is seen to be the aesthetic equivalent of domination (6) In this quote‚ I believe Adorno and Horkheimer were trying to point out that society has moved from a creative environment; where artists were free to experiment and create at will to one of structure. The authors show that we have turned creativity into a system that limits resources and makes things more predetermined and mass-produced. I believe this to be true because in todays

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