The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception

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Horkheimer, M. & Adorno, T. W. (1972) The culture industry: Enlightenment as mass deception (John Cumming, Trans.) Dialectic of Enlightenment (pp. 120-167). New York: Herder and Herder.

"Culture now impresses the same stamp on everything. Films, radio and magazines make up a system which is uniform as a whole and in every part." (120)
  • "All mass culture is identical" (121)
  • "Movies and radio need no longer pretend to be art [...] just business" (121)
  • Because they are business they serve no "social utility" (121)

On radio

  • "Private broadcasters are denied any freedom [...] confined to the apocryphal field of the "amateur""
  • Disregards history of ham radio
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