
	Where results make sense

Topic: Culture industry

Related Topics

Cultural studies

Critical theory

Theodor Adorno

Postmodernism

Quaternary sector of industry

Tertiary sector of industry

Information technology

In the News (Sat 12 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Culture industry
		Cultural pessimists such as Theodor Adorno and other philosophers of the Frankfurt school hold that culture industries cultivate false needs; that is, needs created and satisfied by capitalism.
		Before the publication of this essay, the culture referred to in the "culture industry" was usually labelled mass culture.
		The culture industry is a term used to describe the nature of the social, economic and political structures that are proposed by Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.
	www.jahsonic.com /CultureIndustry.html (1283 words)

	Theodor Adorno , Culture industry reconsidered
		In contrast, the technique of the culture industry is, from the beginning, one of distribution and mechanical reproduction, and therefore always remains external to its object.
		If the culture industry is measured not by its own substance and logic, but by its efficacy, by its position in reality and its explicit pretensions; if the focus of serious concern is with the efficacy to which it always appeals, the potential of its effect becomes twice as weighty.
		The total effect of the culture industry is one of anti-enlightenment, in which, as Horkheimer and I have noted, enlightenment, that is the progressive technical domination of nature, becomes mass deception and is turned into a means for fettering consciousness.
	www.ellopos.net /politics/eu_adorno.html (1551 words)

	The Culture Industry Thesis
		The Commodification Of Culture And Its Implications For The Television Industry:
		The culture industry concept is a thesis proposed by Adorno and Horkheimer of the Frankfurt school.
		Cultural expectations are thus aligned with the expectations of investors, the goals of entrepreneurism and the purposes of technological innovators.
	barneygrant.tripod.com /cultureindustry.htm (2699 words)

	Why War? Culture Industry Reconsidered (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Thus, although the culture industry undeniably speculates on the conscious and unconscious state of the millions towards which it is directed, the masses are not primary, but secondary, they are an object of calculation; an appendage of the machinery.
		The culture industry misuses its concern for the masses in order to duplicate, reinforce and strengthen their mentality, which it presumes is given and unchangeable.
		Culture cannot represent either that which merely exists or the conventional and no longer binding categories of order which the culture industry drapes over the idea of the good life as if existing reality were the good life, and as if those categories were its true measure.
	www.why-war.com /news/read.php?id=4098&printme (3300 words)

	Notes on
		Cultural commodities produced for the masses are done so in order to realise value, regardless of their content: a straightforward profit motive is the main goal of the culture industry, and the reach for profit opportunities is what drives it.
		The culture industry is about the distribution of objects and their mechanical reproduction: it remains external to the object itself.
		People in the industry often urge others to think of their viewers as 11 year-olds – they would like them to be that way, and play more than a small part in bringing this about.
	www.arasite.org /adcired.htm (1449 words)

	The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
		The development of the culture industry has led to the predominance of the effect, the obvious touch, and the technical detail over the work itself – which once expressed an idea, but was liquidated together with the idea.
		The culture industry did away with yesterday’s rubbish by its own perfection, and by forbidding and domesticating the amateurish, although it constantly allows gross blunders without which the standard of the exalted style cannot be perceived.
		The escape from everyday drudgery which the whole culture industry promises may be compared to the daughter’s abduction in the cartoon: the father is holding the ladder in the dark.
	www2.cddc.vt.edu /marxists/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/adorno.htm (10125 words)

	The culture industry (1)
		The rationale behind the culture industry is not a sheer technological one, Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno argue in their discussion of the culture industry.
		The essay on the "culture industry" demonstrates the regression of enlightment to ideology which finds its typical expression in cinema and radio.
		The attitude of the public, which ostensibly and actually favors the system of the culture industry, is a part of the system and not an excuse for it.
	www.icce.rug.nl /~soundscapes/DATABASES/SWA/Culture_industry_1.shtml (1584 words)

	Culture Industries/Frankfurt School
		Culture today is the result of demands which are evoked and manipulated.
		The term culture industry is not to be taken literally - refers to the standardisation of cultural entities themselves and to the rationalisation of promotion and distribution techniques.
		The culture industry must sustain interest but ensure a passive, relaxed and uncritical reception: this is induced through the production of patterned and pre-digested cultural entities.
	www.comms.dcu.ie /flynnr/culture_industries_frankfurt_school.htm (990 words)

	Industry of Culture outreach meetings to be held (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Industry of Culture consortium has scheduled a series of outreach meetings across West Virginia this fall and winter.
		The consortium will present results of surveys demonstrating the economic impact of the creative economy of arts, craft and cultural organizations in the state, gather information for cultural mapping for marketing cultural tourism, and set goals for new publications and communication systems to advance the success of the arts.
		The West Virginia Division of Culture and History, an agency of the West Virginia Department of Education and the Arts, brings together the state’s past, present and future through programs and services in the areas of archives and history, the arts, historic preservation and museums.
	www.wvculture.org /agency/press/industrymeetings.html (333 words)

	The Culture Industry Has You
		The Frankfurt School is best known for its characterization of the diverse forms of popular culture (from Hollywood cinema to jazz) as a single “culture industry” that ensures the continued obedience of “the masses” to market interests.
		For the Frankfurt School, the culture industry is just as much a system of mass deception and control as the virtual world of the matrix.
		The culture industry serves the necessary function of recharging workers’ mental and spiritual batteries so that they don’t jam their shoes into the machinery or otherwise try to overthrow the system that dehumanizes and controls them.
	www.urbandharma.org /udharma6/industry.html (1322 words)

	Cathedrals of the Culture Industry \| varnelis.net
		Cultural production became dominated by the culture industry and its products for mass consumption or by a vanishingly small avant-garde, possessing a polemical critique that by its nature could only be understood by a select few.
		Today the art museum no longer speaks with the condescending voice of a benevolent élite but rather joins the culture industry to address the public as a market, enticing audiences with popular exhibits and an architecturally stunning environment in which the museum's stores and restaurants are as important a draw as the works of art.
		Buoyed by the museum industry's belief that neo-avant-garde architecture is necessary for maintaining the bottom-line, architecture seems to have a function in society again.
	varnelis.net /articles/cathedrals (3166 words)

	M/C Journal: "Copyright, Print and Authorship in the Culture Industry"
		This paper asserts that notions of the “culture industry” (as opposed to some other conception of culture) are also inherently connected to the some three hundred years of copyright legislation.
		Prior to 1709, copyright or licensing related to the book publishing industry where the work as formatted, pressed and disseminated was more important to protect than the text itself or the concept of the author as the writer of the text.
		Historically, prior to copyright and the culture industry, this approach to authorship was the norm.
	journal.media-culture.org.au /0506/06-phillipswatts.php (1631 words)

	Woody Plant Tissue Culture
		An industry is emerging in various areas throughout the country which is taking advantage of technological advances in the realm of tissue culture of woody plants.
		This technology suggests that propagation by tissue culture is indeed applicable to the "difficult to propagate" species, and equally as important, it may offer economic advantages for some species which are considered relatively "easy to propagate".
		Shoots are removed from the cultures at regular intervals and a portion of the mass is replaced on fresh media to continue proliferation.
	aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu /tisscult/microprop/woodypl.html (1376 words)

	Nurture creativity to propel culture industry
		As for China, despite rapid development in recent years, the culture industry is still far from being able to meet domestic demands, and it accounts for only a tiny portion of the nation's GDP.
		The other reason is that the culture industry is a broad concept, including many aspects that form the world's cultural heritage, such as skills, entertainment and history (particularly archaeology).
		Yet another conceptual obstacle constraining China's culture industry development is that we have not to date been fully aware of the missing emphasis on humanity and humanism in Chinese culture, which has led to a shortage of human-centric creations.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /opinion/2006-09/16/content_690934.htm (1019 words)

	Networked Public Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Esoteric cultural referents to anime characters and narratives are embedded in visual cues edited to conform to the audio track through lipsynch, rapid-fire cuts, and often-sophisticated labor-intensive digital effects.
		These disruptive technologies, as they are often characterized in the industry, are bringing about a transformation in the media landscape, moving it from a push to a pull ecology, where consumers begin to set the terms of their engagement.
		In the cultural genres outlined above, the members of what used to be commonsenically termed an “audience” or a “demographic” are now seen as integral to the process of production, regardless of the extent to which their power to shape the process has been accepted and integrated by existing authorities.
	netpublics.annenberg.edu /alternative_media/networked_public_culture (8618 words)

	Hip-Hop and the Culture Industry: A Debasing Fusion
		Hip-Hop and the Culture Industry: A Debasing Fusion
		However, hip-hop is actually a term that denotes a cultural movement comprised of four elements: DJing, MCing (rapping), breakdancing, and graffiti (some people contend that fashion, or in other cases, beat-boxing, is the fifth element of hip-hop, but this argument is dismissed by most hip-hop purists).
		The socially and intellectually valuable elements of the culture have been suppressed, not necessarily because society fears hip-hop, but because the majority of Americans are simply not interested in a culture that questions their ways of life.
	www.africaresource.com /content/view/152/90 (2691 words)

	adorno on mass culture; cook [rev] - Title
		Emigrants from Nazi Germany, Adorno and his colleagues observed the use of mass culture in German fascism and were shocked to see in the United States the same sort of ideological culture which reproduced the existing social relations and served as propaganda for the established socio-economic and political order.
		In sum, the book is a refreshing departure from the frequent tendency to bash and dismiss Adorno without further ado, or the tendency on behalf of his followers to simply celebrate him as the great theorist of the contemporary moment.
		Yet occasionally, I have a nightmare that in some sense Adorno is right, that media culture by and large keeps individuals gratified and subservient to the logic and practices of market capitalism, that the culture industry has become thoroughly commodified and absorbs and deflects all oppositional culture to subservient ends.
	www.gseis.ucla.edu /courses/ed253a/MCkellner/COOKREV.html (1022 words)

	"Theodor Adorno and the Culture Industry" (1984)
		Since the value of the cultural object is based on the monopolistic rent or, to a subordinate degree, on the object's utility, the value of the cultural object should decline as well.
		He states that "the expression 'industry' [in the concept 'culture industry'] is not to be taken literally.
		It is necessary critically to delve into the material basis of the cultural apparatus which has ensnared the thinking, attitudes, and cultural practices of vast numbers of the populace.
	www.wright.edu /~gordon.welty/Adorno_84.htm (1873 words)

	Culture Industry and Politics: Hollywood Stars and Palestinian Wedding Singers on Terrorism
		Artists always needed to find material support, but in the context of the culture industry, commercial considerations are understood to outweigh artistic independence.
		Two recent news items need to be considered in the context of the culture industry discussion but also in juxtaposition with each other.
		This is not the first foray of the group into the world of culture and politics: they used the same tune (different lyrics) for the Hamas election song, but Hamas did better than the song.
	www.telospress.com /main/index.php?main_page=news_article&article_id=114 (1165 words)

	Matthew Racher's Online Journal: Culture and Industry
		Receive an email every time the entry "Culture and Industry" is updated or commented upon.
		Do record labels dictate the culture we live in today or do people guide the record labels in congruence with the culture that they see is necessary.
		Most industries seem to be guided by a direct knowledge of what consumers want and need, yet the music industry fluctuates as tastes evolve to meet cultural desires.
	blog.case.edu /Racher/2006/03/31/culture_and_industry (259 words)

	Culture industry kills kids - Opinion
		Immediately after the shootings, conservative commentators were quick to decry “goth culture” and bands like Marilyn Manson for influencing the two students to violence.
		This is the culture industry at its worst.
		Because culture is now the same thing as the media, culture is now global.
	www.iowastatedaily.com /news/2000/09/13/Opinion/Culture.Industry.Kills.Kids-1060016.shtml (875 words)

	»»culture-industry Reviews«« (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		At this point, they argue that "One general description of the whole organization's culture is possible, although organizations are made up of a number of suborganizational units, each with a slightly different culture.
		And they also argue that "One of the keys to success in improving organizational performance is to ensure that reward plans reinforce the desired culture, or at least attempt to reduce the gap between the existing and desired culture".
		The sections on the amusement park-style rides, refreshments, and attractions that were used to lure the bored and their cash to this form of voyeurism are especially delightful (the "Mono-Rocket" ride and the new high-speed food dispensers provide intriguing images of capitalist inventiveness).
	www.financial-book-review.com /contrarian/culture-industry (3993 words)

	Society of the Spectacle » The Culture Industry
		Anyway, they continue on that the âculture industryâ not only weakens pure artistic expression, but leads to a dangerous comodification of thought and ideology.
		The promissory note, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.
		To pick up on a theme from our last class, we do often see culture as a binary: high and low, good or bad, etc. One thing I do like about this essay is that it does articulate the interconnectedness of culture, ideology and capitalism, which is something Iâd like to continue discussing in class.
	www.samplereality.com /gmu/fall2006/spectacle/09/10/the-culture-industry (944 words)

	RELEVANT MAGAZINE
		We are all savvy enough these days to recognize that a “culture industry” does exist—an elite, disproportionately small group of conditioners that cross-market products to fill a demand they’ve fabricated in the first place.
		In a culture that is increasingly dog-eat-dog, our pseudo social-Darwinist instincts tell us that survival means playing by the rules of the ruling party.
		Not necessarily, but the thing the culture industry tries to—usually successfully—convey is that the popularity and economic impact of a product are much more important than the experience of it.
	www.relevantmagazine.com /pc_article.php?id=7083 (1229 words)

	Culture Industry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		New London underground band Culture Industry's medieval style site site contains this quote, which perhaps sums up their outlook on the world: "As culture becomes wholly assimilated and integrated human beings are once more debased".
		Doom-ridden, bass-heavy verses are complimented by drum patterns and a neat bunch of words: for example the stabbing chorus is met by a chant of "ascending like American architecture".
		Overall an impressive debut; what's most heartening about Culture Industry is their seeming dedication to improvement (in terms of their choice of an experienced producer and quality mixing at Abbey Road).
	www.geocities.com /godisinthetv2003/culture_industry.htm (212 words)

	culture.info - sharing knowledge for culture - industry
		UK / Industry - a listing of agencies and initiatives designed to help the creative and cultural industries.
		Assessing the Impact of the Cultural Industry (paper by David Throsby)
		Cultural Industries in Asia and the Pacific (UNESCO)
	industry.culture.info (592 words)

	The Culture Industry Revisited (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc.)
		As the culture wars continue to dominate newspaper headlines and conference panels, much of the debate revolves around the value of and values in popular culture.
		Many opponents of popular culture have cited Theodor W. Adorno, one of the leading figures of the Frankfurt School of critical theorists.
		Adorno is understood to have viewed mass culture as completely commodified--that is, produced only to be sold on the market and without aesthetic value.
	www.rowmanlittlefield.com /Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0847681556 (250 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)