English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Culture Industry, Morality, Jane Austen

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16 Dec 2015
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We laugh when people act like machines. Cartoons are celebrations of technology > but they show us organized cruelty and make us happy victims of our own punishment. Cartoons help us understand why the victim has to be punished, bullying, etc. Entertainment often involves a tacit cruelty, movies these days are getting more and more violent. There"s a passive acceptance of cruelty in all entertainment. Popular culture is titillating with being satisfying - being constantly drawn in and promised something without receiving it. The culture industry does not sublimate: it suppresses . Works of art are ascetic and shameless; the culture industry is pornographic and prudish. (adorno, page 111) Popular culture is addicting, always leaving the viewer wanting more. Everyone is eventually going to look like everyone else. This dystopian future is often explored in literature. Moralism of sexuality and popular culture that strangely coexists with the coy titillation. Setting: classroom, education, bored, tapping her pencil.

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