On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno's essay "Culture Industry Reconsidered" (1963). How does the entertainment industry affect us? Adorno and Horkheimer (who co-authored the book, but it looks like Adorno mainly wrote the essay we read) are founding figures of the Continue Reading …
Ep. 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry (Citizen Edition)
On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno's essay "Culture Industry Reconsidered" (1963). How does the entertainment industry affect us? Adorno and Horkheimer (who co-authored the book, but it looks like Adorno mainly wrote the essay we read) are founding figures of the Continue Reading …
Camille Contra Gaga: “The Death of Sex”
Gaga as a teenager: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ke2JG5v5Y0. Camille Paglia will reveal in the Sunday Times that Lady Gaga is in fact bluffin' with her muffin: she's fake, antiseptic, and stripped of eroticism. It's an enjoyable irony that the moralizers of this generation must hearken back to those simpler, more innocent times like the ... 70s. Women were women, men were Continue Reading …