Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Role of Style in Modern Art
I find myself listening to podcasts, which makes it impossible to think about. In every work of art, style is a promise. The culture industry has finally posited this imitation as absolute. It divulges style secret, obedience to the social hierarchy. Yet it is only in this struggle with tradition, a struggle precipitated in style that art can find expression for suffering.
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