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| The Frankfurt School for Social Research |
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-Group of mass society critics. Marxist claims, Jewish/German
-How is Mass society preventing the working class from having a radical revolution?
-The Institute of Social Research (1923) Set itself apart from the University, strictly cultural research
-wrote during rise of hitler, fail of unions
-What is the link between culture & power?
àMass media forms are tools of domination, promote the status quo and protect the interests of those in power
-The media obscure certain truths & promote others
-The logic of capitalism—drive for profit
-We are enculturated to become obedient workers |
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| Psychological Impact of Living Under Capitalism |
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-breakdown of traditional authority
-mass media becomes main source of socialization
-loss of meaning and automization
-teaches obedience and conformity |
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-The enlightenment project was to liberate us through reason—science and technology
àTHEY ARGUE: But it has also given us disease, fear, alienation, and the breakdown of traditional ties and forms
of meaning making (these have become dominant)
-The process of enlightenment has not been self-reflexive
-The dominant form of reason is instrumental and shortsighted
-The “rational” (immoral) becomes (reason turned to eclipse) “irrational” àECLIPSE OF REASON |
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Perpetual growth of capital: endless cycle of manufacture and management of need
-Tyranny of the performance principle leads to performance anxiety |
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| Re-pressive De-sublimation |
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-We are anxious because we don't recieve meaning from our monotonous work/jobs/turmoils of everyday life
-We express these anxieties by feeding into the very system we hate (retail therapy, watching TV when you get home)
-this makes the system continue and only contributes to the growth of mass media
-keeps us complacent as we do not revolut or search for meaning elsewhere |
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-member of the Frankfurt School
-repressive desublimation
-pseudo-individualization
-all music is the same, we passively ingest it
-all mass culture does not challenge us |
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