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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2016

⏱️ 128 minutes

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Summary

On Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer's "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" from Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944), plus Adorno's "Culture Industry Reconsidered" (1963). How does the entertainment industry affect us? Adorno (armed with Marx and Freud) thinks that our "mass culture" is imposed from the top down to lull us into being submissive workers.

End song: "All Too Familiar," from around 1992 with all instruments by Mark Linsenmayer, released on The MayTricks.

Transcript

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You're listening to the partially examined life,

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a philosophy podcast by some guys who read one point said on doing philosophy for living,

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but then thought better of it.

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Our question for episode 136 is something like,

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how does the entertainment industry affect us?

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When we read the culture industry,

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enlightenment as mass deception by Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer,

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from 1944, as well as Adorno's 1963 article,

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Culture Industry Reconsidered.

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This is Mark Linson-Mier,

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complicit in my own helplessness in medicine Wisconsin.

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This is Seth Paskin, attentive, but unimaginative in Austin, Texas.

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