The Mechanical Reproduction of Beauty

The issue about the mechanical reproduction of beauty is that it's selling it as an unattainable ideal. As a consumer, you have to believe that in some sense, that could be you. And so there's something about having a unique work of art, for instance, a painting and a museum as opposed to this thing that there are many, many copies of everywhere. So I think he thinks there's something essential about that to beauty. Laughter indicates a release whether from physical danger or logic. It resounds with the echo of escape from power,. Wrong laughter copes with fear by coping with its own depravity. The next part of our show will look at Adorno's