Few 20th-century thinkers have cultivated a reputation for pessimism like that of Theodor Adorno ... commodified culture; he was critical of all of the products of the culture industry.

The culture industry refers to that phenomenon in which the powerful media manipulate people’s minds in order to reduce them to conformists. Theodor Adorno explains that television permeates people’s ...

Titled “Critical Theory: 50 Years After Adorno,” Arzuaga and his colleagues set out to discuss and reflect upon capitalist society through the lens Theodor W ... capitalism and how they profoundly ...

Marxism turned from class war to culture war in the 1920s ... sciences and called it “Critical Theory.” We call it “the Frankfurt School”: Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Max Horkheimer ...

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer ... version of reality and that the "culture industry" makes the customer an object to the machine. As Adorno wrote: "although the culture industry undeniably ...

Things Beyond Resemblance, the translator, critic and philosopher Robert Hullot-Kentor sat with the artist Paul Chan at the The Brooklyn Rail’s HQ in Greenpoint, where they exchanged reassessments of ...

Known popularly as the Frankfurt School, it was an all-star crew of lefty theorists, including Walter Benjamin, Theodor ... Adorno came to the states and was appalled by the culture industry ...