The Culture Industry - Adorno, Horkheimer, Neomarxism and Ideology

Hello, were you enjoying your day watching Marvel movies and listening to The Chainsmokers? BECAUSE YOU SHOULDN'T BE, AND HERE ARE THE DORKS WHO SAY SO. If you hope to be a critical theorist, step one is dunking on the things that everyone else enjoys.


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Source List:
Adorno & Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment: https://amzn.to/2TimPSt
Benjamin, Work of Art In the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: https://amzn.to/2TuUU0y
Horkheimer, Eclipse of Reason: https://amzn.to/2PAGWJp
Adorno, Aesthetic Theory: https://amzn.to/32Kirif
Marcuse, Eros and Civilization: https://amzn.to/32Hwc16
Marx, Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts: https://amzn.to/2wWrlx8
Fisher, Capitalist Realism: https://amzn.to/2IdeF7v
Eagleton, Culture: https://amzn.to/2vwxWhz


Timecode
0:00 Introduction
0:51 The Culture Industry
4:55 "Art" and Aesthetics
10:16 Psychology of Capitalism
14:35 Catharsis, or selling you your discontent