Digital Communication 2001A/B Lecture 7: Lecture 7
20 Dec 2018
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Astra taylor on the potential of the web (from 33:38) https://www. democracynow. org/2014/4/25/utopian_potential_of_the_internet_astra. In the culture industry , theodore adorno and max horkheimer described american entertainment -- from cinema to jazz -- as a single culture industry that ensures the continued obedience of the masses to market interests. They saw the culture industry as a system that distracts by filling consumers" leisure time with amusements designed to enable them to bear the exhaustion and boredom of their increasingly rationalized and mechanized work. You farmed land you didn"t own with tools you couldn"t really afford. You paid for it with part of your harvest A pretty sweet dealuntil things got bad. (things always got bad. ) In a bad year, you got further in debt to the land owner. Taylor says of sharecropping: instead of the production or distribution of culture being concentrated in the hands of the few, it is the economic value of culture that is hoarded.
