Articles tagged "theodor adorno"

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Classical Radio Communities: Thoughts on Mediation

by Chadwick Jenkins

[27.Apr.07] :. Classical music radio gives rise to a prophylactic form of community: we are somehow participating with other listeners without having to engage directly with those others. The music becomes a pretense for communal participation.

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Philosophy of New Music by Theodor Adorno; Translated by Robert Hullot-Kentor

by Patrick Schabe

[19.Sep.06] :. For Adorno, the opiate of the masses in late capitalism was not religion, but culture, and mass-produced culture was little more than a drug that served no other capacity than the reification and perpetuation of the dominance of capital -- culture as product that could only produce more product as culture.

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