CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frankfurt School, Critical Theory, Max Horkheimer

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 3109
• Professor: Dina Salha

Document Summary

Culture (al) industry: the industries that have a cultural role such as creating, producing and commercializing contents. These include advertising, architecture, crafts, fashion clothing, film, printing, publishing and multi-media, audiovisual and cinematic productions, and so forth. The frankfurt school: small group of philosophers, called critical theorists who worked under the direction of. Nazi + fascism: the means of totalitarianism and authoritarianism is the media so instead of coerci(cid:374)g you physically it(cid:859)s (cid:373)ostly psychological, through co(cid:374)ditio(cid:374)i(cid:374)g or normalizing effects. Marx and the frankfurt school: the frankfurt school turned to freudian psychology (oedipus complex) to explain why the (cid:449)orkers(cid:859) re(cid:448)olutio(cid:374) did (cid:374)ot happe(cid:374) i(cid:374) ad(cid:448)a(cid:374)ced capitalist societies as predicted by. Capitalist societies: the frankfurt school considers that capitalist societies exploit nature and necessarily, exploit the human being (as a condition to exploit nature) In short, instrumentalism does not have to take the form of brutal state repression.