Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Stage Fright, Interchangeable Parts, Theodor W. Adorno
9 Jul 2014
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A theory is critical to the extent that it seeks to liberate humans from the circumstances that enslave them . Theory must seek to reveal abuses of power and increase freedom. Starts from the assumption that the world as it is is not good enough: believes in human reason, and that the world can be changed by people. Mass society critics, but with a marxist, radical agenda. A group of german intellectuals associated with the institute for social research at the university of. Worried that mass media kept people from changing the world (whereas arnold and leavis feared that it would lead to cultural decline. Wrote against the backdrop of the failure of worker"s movements and the rise of hitler and fascism, the failure of unions and capitalist free market economic. Moved to new york following the rise of hitler. The rise of hitler: disseminated his beliefs through propaganda, media, and huge spectacles.
