Episode 136: Adorno on the Culture Industry
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Unprofization of Art
The culture industry posits the forms as absolute, but real art understands that you are struggling against that very form. It is only in the struggle with tradition, a struggle precipitated in style that art can find expression for suffering. If you actually say, I'm going to be formulaic, hear the forms, let's follow the form, then you're no longer doing that. You've collapsed all the tension.
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