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The Culture Industry: A Tool for Social Control


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Have you ever noticed that something strange is happening in our current pop culture? The plots of nearly every Hollywood movie, the personal brands of pop stars, our contemporary pop songs all feel standardized and the same. The section “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception” in Adorno and Horkheimer (A&H)’s Dialectic of Enlightenment offers […]
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