Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry (Part Two)
Summary: Continuing on Theodor Adorno's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (1944). We cover topics within art and entertainment like the role of style: You think you're being so original with your personal style, but Adorno sees you has having already been brainwashed into being a clone, so your "authentic" expression is anything but. Also, humor is not, as you might think, a way of bringing an audience together in solidarity, but is the "eruption of barbarism!" And sex in the popular culture: what a tease! Manufactured entertainment products can't even get tragedy right! They just condition us into accepting our crappy situation.<br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0804736332/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0804736332&linkCode=as2&tag=theparexalif-20&linkId=KJ544JENZZYSLGAT" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Buy the book</a> or you can <a href="https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm" target="_blank">read this abridged version online</a>.<br> Listen to <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/03/28/ep136-1-adorno/" target="_blank">part 1</a> first or get the ad-free <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/03/28/ep136-adorno-citizen/" target="_blank">Citizen Edition</a>. <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/support/" target="_blank">Please support PEL</a>!<br> End song: "All Too Familiar," from around 1992 with all instruments by Mark Linsenmayer, released on The MayTricks. <a href="http://marklint.com/MayTricksAlbum.html" target="_blank">Get the whole album free</a>.<br>
