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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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    KRITIKĒ   VOLUME ONE NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2007) 25-31 Article The Critical Role of Art: Adorno between Utopia and Dystopia Paolo A. Bolaños In the drama of conscious existence‚ it is not theory and practice that encounter each other‚ but enigma and transparency‚ phenomenon and insight. If enlightenment does occur‚ it does so no through the establishment of a dictatorship of lucidity but as the dramatic selfillumination of existence. – Peter Sloterdijk1 Introduction eading or hearing

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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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    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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    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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    According to 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

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    west of Main Street. 3. Work was finished at 7:30pm. 4. The accident was at 10:30pm. 5. Adorno did not hear that Lastrina was going to his sisters. 6. Adorno directed Lastrina to go home and park the truck. Adorno should not be liable for Lastrina’s actions. Lastrina was outside the realm of work‚ therefore‚ Adorno’s responsibility for the accident is invalid. The day’s work was completed at 7:30pm. Adorno told Lastrina to go home and park the truck at the location agreed upon. Lastrina took a detour

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    society was not explainable. A 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

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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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    The Human Situation on Stage: Merce Cunningham‚ Theodor Adorno‚ and the Category of Expression Carrie Noland Dance Research Journal‚ Volume 42‚ Number 1‚ Summer 2010‚ pp. 46-60 (Article) Published by University of Illinois Press DOI: 10.1353/drj.0.0063 For additional information about this article http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/drj/summary/v042/42.1.noland.html Access Provided by University of Manchester at 07/08/10 10:18PM GMT Photo 1. Merce Cunningham in his Sixteen Dances for Soloist

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