Dialectic of Mass Culture: How Culture Industry Shaped the Masses

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10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198How to use a DOI?

Keywords

culture industry; the masses; Enlightenment; totality; self-awakening

Abstract

This essay uses Horkheimer and Adorno’s work on the culture industry to analyze how the culture industry shaped the masses from its historical cause and how it keeps coming into effect. While promoting individual awakening, Enlightenment created a system of totality. According to this logic, the cultural industry not only turns culture and art into commodities through capital manufacture, but also affects consumers with its productions. To a certain extent, this process makes consumers lose their self-awakening, and this result is contrary to the Enlightenment.

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© 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yijia Shi
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/01/28
TI  - Dialectic of Mass Culture: How Culture Industry Shaped the Masses
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1054
EP  - 1057
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198
ID  - Shi2022
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