CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Theodor W. Adorno, Frankfurt School, Culture Industry

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

1 capitalist system is root of all. 2 popular culture distracts workers from what is wrong with society- reduce likelihood of revolutionary change. 3 no more authentic art- capitalist turns everything including peoples identities into goods. Media integrates audiences into the capitalist system. Culture is now a product of capitalism- art no longer becomes challenging. Leisure time becomes toxic- entertainment vs self development. There are proto fascists everywhere. cultural and psychological issues are at the source of our problems- not political and economical. minds are sick not society. Capitalism doesn"t sell us the things we really need- desires manufactured. ^^1930s people begin to see the emergence of mass communication. Mass media is a tool through which people start to be integrated into a new society; a new way of life. The culture industry: we create desires in people and then provide the consumer goods for those desires; doesn"t only apply to stuff= create culture.