Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry" (Part 1/2)
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In this episode, I present the first three chapter of Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry." Adorno levels a strong critique against mass culture here, highlighting the effects of alienation under advanced industrial capitalism
Timestamps:
Ch. 3: The Culture Industry Reconsidered (Beginning)
Ch. 1: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening (11:50)
Ch 2: The Schema of Mass Culture (26:41)
I just had an epiphany while listening to this lecture! Im working and researching for my thesis, Tavistock, SRI, BigTech, Modern Technocratic Fascism and the impacts of social media as influences of implanted and intentional ideas used to manipulate the masses! Adorno’s observations as a result of the F-Scale Questionnaire and the impact of the cultural industrialization have led to the current situation, in which we now find our world and it’s potential Economic collapse.
The rise of Technocracy and the interdependence between humanity and technology are really byproducts of the very industrialized culture Adorno observed a hundred years ago.
The epiphany occurred when I drew the concepts and conclusions into a graphic to see the flow of this self-perpetuating, catastrophic distraction of desire and greed over need and human connection.
I dunno... I think Adorno was wrong to criticize wide-appeal art for our politics being less than ideal... To me, he comes off as a university teacher that was salty that his ideas weren't popular and blamed it on TV zombifying the kids.
I was thinking the same thing. popular culture is being run through an algorithm. Everyones worried about AI and doesn't realize its already taken over. Punk is dead, everything has been comodified, even trolls who might see themselves as the new punk are participating in the culture by shit posting. There is no escape for data is the new god and even your resistance is participation. This somehow relates to Godwins Law as well. Everyone who particiaptes is literaly hitler and you cant not participate... Sorry rambling a lot. Just got into this guy and trying to write a short story about it.
@@marklombard9360 Clearly the last year has a vibe similar to the ending of Deus Ex and Metal Gear Solid 2, what with AI and computer curation of culture.
It is also helpful to read Marcuse and Horkheimer
This is better than almost any "explanation" of an Adornian concept I have came across in music scholarship.
This is one book I was so hoping you’d get to! Thanks for this!
Are you going to sell philosophy books along with coffee and doughnuts?
Thank you so much! This was very helpful for my understanding
This is amazing, thank you for this it helped me immensely in understanding
Thanks for the video! Now the book seems way more readable!
Great video. This is very relevant in the current world.
Omg!!! I just search out of curiosity in spotify! …. They have this espisode!!!! :D
Great overview. Appreciate it!
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you. Very informative. I first came upon Adorno while reading Edward Said and wondering what brings Adorno to post colonialism. I think I have my answer here though of course in not a direct way which shall encourage me to think through that question.
So interesting thank you
I am halfway through this and really appreciating it. However, for some reason, it is not coming up in searches on podcast apps, so I am having to listen on my PC which is annoying. Has anyone got any idea why it would not be appearing? The other Adorno stuff is there....
Try Google podcasts :)
@@TheoryPhilosophy Thanks. Have listened to them on here now. But will do that if I encounter the problem again (ps - I have switched account)
On Adorno's argument that we nowadays equate recognition with liking: I'd like to know in how far this is only a modern phenomenon and why. Why would people of earlier centuries have reacted any different to hearing a song they knew?
I think Adorno's Negative Dialectic is a means of abdicating responsibility for aesthetic criteria
Nobody can debate Adorno in terms of music because he was musicologist. But again, he was inconsistent. Dude, thanks. Next time, please create a podcast on Benjamin's " Arcade Project*
Indeed, art is cheapened by extracting exchange value from it. The axiology of masses must see exchange value extracted from high art to be repugnant market/value. Adorno is right - one can extrapolate out that high art is stripped of its ‘bios’ and reduced to only its zoē by NeoLiberal rentier capitalist extraction. The MTVafication of art... rentier ‘art’
Thx . But I will read it first, then I'll listen.
Adorno's theory of atonality presupposes that art manifestation is simply infinite. You defy misappropriation but defiance for the sake of defiance is also a means of submission to such misappropriation
So, top 40 radio is based on arbitrary and meaningless criteria. 😱
Lol
Capitalist culture is agianst enlighment ere ways of thinking bescause:
1.Capitalism especially in a interionatial scale is very productive but very inefficient. So there is for example lots of profit at amazon but effiency is low bescause overproduction gets thrown away just like alot of return to company commodities.
2. Relgion is seen as acceptable in most neoliberal countries, while it without a deep analyiss clearly conflicts with rational thinking, just think of the double standards of religious schools vs secular schools.
3. Capitalism on a phycolgical level maintains itself mostly on conformity within imperialist core countries like France.
And withing colionial countries like Chile, where the explation is my visiable and severe, there is brutal oppression of resistance, with some elementss of conformist propagenda of course.
The idea behind the enlightment was that all old ideas should be able to be questioned and if found unscientifc to be discarded.
A wrong life can’t be lived rightly
Interesting, thank you..
But please stop saying things like "in the 20th century OR SO". 🙂
Also, enlightenment valued "rationalism", not "rationalization "
Ah shit good call good call
When A Marxist from the Frankfurt School and speaking of "late capitalism" talks culture keep both critical eyes wide open.
How is adorno any different from that old man complaining about “music today”? He just uses a lot more words to express it.
Well that is the difference. Normal old grumpy people just complain and don’t even know what they are complaining about.
Adorno is also grumpy and old and complaining but he actually gives very good reasons and arguments for it.
But he is inconsistent.
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