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What are you guys thoughts on this theory? I did a paper on it and it's some haunting shit.

What are you guys thoughts on this theory? I did a paper on it and it's some haunting shit.

>Adorno and Horkheimer foresaw that capitalism's influence will propagate to all life's domains.
>Culture and arts are now seen as products meant to be sold. The ''Culture industry''
>Those products are standardized and they're all the same.
>They represent the reality e.g. films instead of going further than that.
>Individuals gladly adhere to the system thinking it's the best as medias portray it
>Fall of ''speculative'' social sciences and rise of positivism and empiricism. Accordind to Adorno, hard facts can't comprehend society as a whole.
>''Instrumental reason'' which is the new dominating reason in capitalist societies, everything has to have a purpose e.g. profit in most cases.
>Capitalist system constantly validated in mass produced culture and mass medias
>Individuals come to think that ''After capitalism there's chaos and only chaos''
>End of the emancipation praxis

>2015
>still thinking the frankfurt school were 'marxists'
>still reading critical theory
Top fucking lel.

Can someone please tell me how and why all of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Frankfurt School and "cultural Marxism" got started and spread?

Can /lit/ think of anything more filled with despair and pessimism than the frankfurt school? In philosophy and literature.

>>4058921
how could jews be responsible for degenerate art?

pic related

Hello /lit/,

I just finished reading The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception by Horkheimer and Adorno. Can anyone familiar with the Frankfurt School and Critical Theory help me better understand what these men mean by 'truth,' 'style,' and 'autonomy' of art? Often times, "light art" is referenced but I have no understanding of what they mean. I think I'm following their argument but their terms aren't fully defined and expanded on which confuses me. I get that, within a Capitalist system, the individual believes he has autonomous choice when in reality, there are limited amount of choices the individual can make, resulting in a "sameness" of choices for everybody, which implies that there truly is no individuality. Specifically, the choices of film presented to us are mere distraction as a form of entertainment for the lower classes so they willingly return to their jobs the following day as if they truly had a moment of leisure. Studios produce mass culture but what is the response to this? The text does not seem to prescribe a solution/answer but merely observations. Is there an endpoint?

Again, any input would be greatly appreciated. This is my first venture into "neo-Marxism" (if we can call it that) and I'm out of my element.

I've seen quite a bit about it on this site (as I am sure you all have), and because I doubt the truthfulness of /pol/ images, I am interested in what they actually wrote.

Did they actually write anything worth reading, and if so, what should I read?

Also, I sincerely am not a troll.

>>486612
LONG LIVE THE FRANKFURT SCHOOL!