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The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as a Way to Deceive the Masses

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The Cultural Industry: Enlightenment as a Way to Deceive the Masses
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The essay "The Culture Industry" is one of the chapters of the landmark book by Frankfurt School representatives Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno "Dialectic of Enlightenment" (1947). In this text, the founders of critical theory consider the culture industry as a way of manipulating the masses through standardized and uniform works of art that have no value for a person, which are goods whose only purpose is to make a profit. The culture industry parasitizes on the desire of people of late capitalism to get quick entertainment to distract themselves from the hardships of life, inequality, oppression. Although the objects of analysis of Horkheimer and Adorno were radio and cinema, the concept of the "culture industry" itself formed the basis for the study of completely different media and does not lose its relevance in the current digital era.
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