COMM 2102 Lecture : COMM jan 16 les 2.docx

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Communication Studies
• Course: COMM 2102
• Professor: Ira Wagman

Document Summary

Reading: david hume, of the standard of taste . But taste differs throughout different times and places. The central notion in hume"s aesthetics is taste. No other authority for evaluating art exists other than taste, for hume. In summary, hume believes that, even though all of our knowledge comes from our experiences, yet we can explain agreement in aesthetic judgments because of uniformities in the human mind in the exercise of our taste. Reading: theodore w. adorno, culture industry reconsidered , p. 12-19: replaced mass culture with culture industry , the culture industry fuses the old and familiar into a new quality, mass production of products which are tailored for consumption by masses. The mass production of a product likely determines the way in which it is consumed (?) Culture industry: technique refers to distribution and mechanical reproduction that always remains external to the object/product.