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Week 5: The Frankfurt School and Everyday Life - Coggle Diagram
Week 5: The Frankfurt School and Everyday Life
session 9
Marcuse "one dimensional man"
Fromm
illusion of freedom
what if human beings do not want to be free
Horkheimer/ adorno "the culture industry as mass deception"
cultural domination
massification of the media indutry
industry business, efficiency
Session 10
de certeau "walking in the city"
we perceive the world through the lense of socialisation
the art of doing
transforming spaces into places -> adds meaning to spaces
Buck-Morss, "the city as dreamworld and catastrophe"
Key points
FS -> identification of similarities between totalitarian regimes of fascims and soviet communism/ And betwee "democratic" countries in term of
cultural domination
cultural domination -> as a result of the depetive massification of the media industry (
adorno Horkheimer
)
the total administratioin and homogenization of life (marcuse)
the illusion of freedom (
Fromm
)
quantitative and qualitative choice of freedom
Modernity's "dream" for emancipation lead to a system that promotes mass-persuasion, discipline and control insteand of freedom (
Buck Morss
)
dominance of modern cultural industry -> standarized
making time and space disapear
Difference betwee seeing the city from above and afar, and living it at ground level from within (
de certeau
)
key points from in class
illusion of individual freedom
total administration of life (subjugating critical thinking)
ideology of positivism
idea of progress ( negative dialectives)
the role of media as instrumental of control
mass decepetion of all classes through media
citique of capitalism
repressive of individual freedom
paradoxe of freedom autonomy and independence
definition
real needs or performative needs