Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - False Dilemma, Walter Benjamin, Utopia
15 Apr 2013
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The frankfurt school for social research changes threatened the morals of society anarchy. Concern about pop culture and mass media is not that it is a threat, but it kept us from criticizing the masses. Frankfurt school were worried that it kept people from changing the world. 1920s to the 1960s, moved from frankfurt to usa and back again. Mass society critics, but with a marxists, radical agenda. How was mass society preventing the working class from developing a radical revolutionary consciousness: how to save the world from a completely left wing view. Jewish germans, who were forced out by hitler: central question was with, after living through and witnessing a series of failed workers revolutions (russian revolution turning into. Fascism, and the rise of fascism in italy and germany) their concern was what kept people from rising again the system that did not work for them.
