Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Absurdity of Mark Twain
The culture of industry is corrupt not as a sink of inequity but as the cathedral of higher gratification. Pure amusement indulged to the full, relaxed abandon to colorful associations and merry nonsense might be actually something we could use. The more seriously art takes his opposition to existence, the more it resembles the seriousness of existence. So ultimately what he's concerned about is truth and falsity.
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