Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

• Episode: Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
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• Duration: 02:07:33
• Published: 2016-03-28 14:00

On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno's "Culture Industry Reconsidered" (1963). How does the entertainment industry affect us? Adorno (armed with Marx and Freud) thinks that our "mass culture" is imposed from the top down to lull us into being submissive workers.

End song: "All Too Familiar," from around 1992 with all instruments by Mark Linsenmayer, released on The MayTricks.