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 ...

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

In 1968 the progressive was attacked as reactionary In a November 4, 1968, letter to Günter Grass, the German philosopher Theodor Adorno (1903-69) made an observation about his student, Hans ...

In the late 1930s, Adorno took part in a Rockefeller Foundation-funded research project at Princeton – on radio content not mind control – and certainly understood the Beatles as instruments of a ...

That remembrance came to me as I read “The Naysayers” in the September 15, 2014 edition of The New Yorker, “Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the critique of pop culture.” I studied with Marxists ...

"ADORNO: THE POSSIBILITY OF THE IMPOSSIBLE" FRANKFURTER KUNSTVEREIN Frankfurt was Theodor Adorno`s home for most of his life, so it is fitting that the Frankfurter Kunstverein has organized "Adorno: ...

Theodor W. Adorno, trans. from the German by Douglas Robertson. Seagull, ... pans the old, and bemoans a philistine culture industry in these knotty essays written from 1922 to 1968.

The thought of the so-called Frankfurt School—of Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and their colleagues—can be considered one of the most significant innovations in 20th-century philosophy. Concepts ...