What is Culture Industry; it is mass culture

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Culture today is infecting everything with sameness.

Total Power of Capital : Specifically capitalist made of production

Culture for Adorno; Culture is a domination which functions in accordance with interest of capitalism and it shapes people with these interests which makes them a part of a mechanism that maintain the system

Films and radio no longer need to present themselves as art they are nothing but business. All mass culture under monopoly is identical.

The technology which is gaining power on society is the power of whose economic position is stronger in the society.

According Kantian Schematism a secret mechanism within the psyche preformed immediate data to fit them into the system of pure reason. Adorno uses this term while mentioning the leisure activities which consumers orient themselves into the unity of production.

The explicit and implicit, exoteric and esoteric catalog of what is forbidden and what is tolerated is so extensive that it not only defines the area left free but wholly controls it. Even the most minor details are modeled according to this lexicon. Like its adversary, avant-garde art, the culture industry defines its own language positively, by means of prohibitions applied to its syntax and vocabulary

The frozen genres – sketch, short story, problem film, hit song – represent the average of late liberal taste threateningly imposed as a norm

Culture industry controls the consumers who is meditated by entertainment.

Fun is is to distract people

Horace defended that art should be sublime but it became monetary.

The culture industry replaces pain, which is present in ecstasy no less than in asceticism, with jovial denial.

A person's subjectivity should be destroyed to make the industry continue.

Yine Foucault amk prisoner analogy we're all prisoners. big guy watching us

Lack of resistence, if you give your body and soul to the industry you can be certified as a reliable customer

The consumer becomes the ideology of the amusement industry which he or she cannot escape (Escaping the Matrix)

Culture’s elixir of life is Advertisements.


(Tell something to the people about the record- “FUCK THE PEOPLE FUCK THE RECORD” -CULTURE INDUSTRY ÖZETİM .