English 2017 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: High Culture, Max Horkheimer, Late Capitalism
16 Sep 2013
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Shakespeare is hard to read, the text is old. Usually more depth to high class, it"s harder to get. High culture has become more accessible like through media and arts. Definition of high culture is constantly changing in their day they weren"t high culture. Power now is the ability to relate to a wide variety of people. To have a certain power in a certain group of people you have to watch the same things they do, enjoy they same things they do and talk about the same things in the same way. You talk about what your group talks about. The skills and advantages you"re given, social mobility. Culture and global capitalism in the adorno article he talks about how pop culture is part of the capitalist system. Were in the area of global capitalism. Adorno says that pop culture makes us want to consume and not think about bigger social issues.
