
Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Importance of Self-Destraction
Sethuate: Adorno thinks that technology is the end game of enlightenment and industrialization in the form of capitalism is what's new. Sethuate: The struggle has been co-opted. And maybe even if the content is different, it's the form of your behavior as a consumer that still is,. hey, I can use my iPhone to look at any website I want. But no, it's still having to shell out money for this thing and then being attached to it physically through your day.
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