CMN 3109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Industry, Instrumentalism, Dixie Chicks

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

Document Summary

Small group of philosophers, called critical theorists, who worked under the direction of max horkheimer(1895-1973) and theodor. Frankfurt school says that all modern societies, especially the advanced capitalist north american society, are victims to forms of authoritarianism, especially fascism (state with terrorist domination) and totalitarianism (total state control). The frankfurt school turned to freudian psychology (oedipus complex) to explain why the workers" revolution did not happen in advanced capitalist societies as predicted by marx. Something in the psychology and personality of workers that prevented them from revolving. Base should determine how politics are going to be. Between the workers and those who own the means of. Workers will revolt ; revolution will take place in most advanced o! Because that"s where the workers are mostly exploited due to technology, division of working day, isolation, labour, etc. Conscious mind is the mind that is aware of what you"re doing. Its concerned with the logical thinking, reality, civilized behaviour. o!