Culture industry
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culture-industry-269-9970433
title:
Culture industry
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The term culture industry was coined by the critical theorists Theodor Adorno (1903–1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895–1973), and was presented as critical vocabulary in the chapter "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception", of the book Dialectic of Enlightenment (1947), wherein they proposed that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural goods—films, radio programmes, magazines, etc.—that are used to manipulate mass society into passivity. Consumption of the
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Expression suggesting that popular culture is used to manipulate mass society into passivity
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_industry
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2023-10-06T14:39:39Z
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