scholarly journals Os meios de comunicação como instrumento de poder: Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (1903-1969) e a Indústria Cultural

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 35-43
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Duarte Fernandes dos Passos
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Critical Position ◽  
Main Thesis ◽  
Theodor Adorno

Resumo: O objetivo do texto abordar a temtica dos meios de comunicao como instrumento de poder luz da indstria cultural conforme Theodor Adorno. Busca-se responder seguinte questo: como a indstria cultural reproduz as relaes de poder no capitalismo contemporneo? Para a consecuo de tal objetivo, o texto apresenta as seguintes etapas: uma breve contextualizao histrica e terica da Teoria Crtica - vertente filosfica qual Adorno e outros autores se filiaram - a definio da indstria cultural conforme Adorno em seus principais argumentos, os efeitos da indstria cultural e do capitalismo organizado, a postura crtica frente ao contexto referido e a nova postura de Adorno nos anos 50 e 60 frente aos meios de comunicao. A principal tese do artigo leva ao entendimento de que a indstria cultural incorpora toda uma racionalidade de dominao e disciplina da vida social e reproduo da ordem capitalista vigente, acabando com as contradies no mbito das manifestaes artsticas na medida em que somente o lucro visado. Summary: The aim of this text is discuss communication means as power instrument in the light of culture industry according to Theodor Adorno. There is a main question which the article seeks an answer: how does culture industry reproduce power relations in contemporary capitalism? In order to concretize this aim, this text presents the following parts: a brief historical and theoretical contextualization of Critical Theory - Adorno and other authors' philosophical current - culture industry concept according to Adorno, culture industry and organized capitalism effects, critical position on this context and Adrono's new posture in the fifties and sixties on communication means. The article's main thesis points to evaluation of culture industry1s rationality of domination and discipline of social life and reproducing of actual capitalist order. This leads to the end of contradictions in art, considering that profit is the only aim. Keywords: Culture Industry, Communication, Power.

Queer Political Astrology

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-120
Author(s):  
Alexa Winstanley-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Western World ◽  
Therapeutic Alternative ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Scientific Fact ◽  
Mainstream Culture ◽  
Aby Warburg ◽  
Political Scene

The resurgence of fascism has quickly become an unavoidable fact of the Western world. Perhaps it comes as no surprise to today’s inheritors of cultural studies and critical theory that astrology has made its own comeback; however, it has made its comeback with a difference. The vanguard of today’s astrological movement is led by the queer Left. Uprooted from its role as fate’s theological handmaiden for mounting figures of authority and apparently removed from the (implicitly heterosexual) reproductive model of a mainstream “culture industry,” queer astrology has come to the fore as an antitraditionalist, anticonservative mode of rethinking human biography in community. The queer astrological model of self-understanding and self-analysis has potential: it is not held in thrall to the perpetually outmoded biological paradigms of scientific “fact,” nor does it require cleaving to secularized but still-fraught figures for the self such as the “martyr,” the “saint,” or the “heretic.” Queer astrology unquestionably breaks the fearful mold beheld by critics like Aby Warburg and Theodor Adorno. But is it political? And if it is, how so? What are its potentials? How do we construe a queer astrological politics that is capable of mounting more than a therapeutic alternative to tradition — one that can play an activist role in a political scene that has already donned the kitsch comb-over of that tabloid credential to which tawdry horoscopes once made their claims?

GREBEG MAULUD DALAM REPRESENTASI BUSANA DAN MOTIF BATIK DI KERATON YOGYAKARTA

CORAK ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renta Vulkanita Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Cultural Shift ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Cultural Centers ◽  
Human Creativity ◽  
Change Culture ◽  
Over Time

Culture growing in Indonesia and overseas intrinsically dynamic. Nature of culture as a result of human creativity is always moving and displacement. When his journey to the vibrant place anyway, culture is likely to mix with the native culture which then grow and develop into a new culture. Culture is a strong factor that affects the mindset. Over time, society has a way of looking at the world deal, behave, and interact with each other. In other words, they have their own color and pattern of the deal while making rules in social life. Yogyakarta in Java, which is known as one of the cultural centers of Java development, especially ritual Grebeg Maulud. Ritual Grebeg Maulud over time reflecting the constantly changing movement of social change, culture, politics, economics and society in his day. Ritual is a means of connecting Grebeg Maulud transcendental between man and God (Manunggaling Kawula-Gusti) and guidance from the teachings of the holy book (Islam). But this time Grebeg Maulud also has another function, namely as a spectacle. This suggests a cultural shift from the sacred to the profane. Batik as a dress code in the Carnival celebrations Grebeg Maulud is one reflection of the existence of culture in Yogyakarta Palace. The use of batik in a ritual procession Grebeg Maulud is a tradition that continues to this day. Batik palace is considered one of the symbols of the existence of power relations by creating a specific motive for a particular class. Dynamism of culture led to the use of batik is not only a marker of power relations, but also as an exciting treat for the fashion show at the Carnival lasts Grebeg Maulud.Keyword: Grebeg, Maulud, representations, clothing, batik, palace, Yogyakarta

From cities to networks: Power rules

2021 ◽  
pp. 1468795X2110220
Author(s):  
Manuel Castells
Keyword(s):  
Social Organization ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Human Activities ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
Spatial Structures ◽  
Digital Communication Networks

Power relations are the source of social organization and institutions. This has been observed and theorized by the author in relation to various realms of social life, such as the formation of spatial structures and the networking of human activities around digital communication networks.

scholarly journals The Frankfurt School and the authoritarian personality: Balance sheet of an insight

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 072551362110059
Author(s):  
Geoff Boucher
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Frankfurt School ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authoritarian Personality ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Authoritarian Populism ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
School Research

Frankfurt School critical theory is perhaps the most significant theory of society to have developed directly from a research programme focused on the critique of political authoritarianism, as it manifested during the interwar decades of the 20th century. The Frankfurt School’s analysis of the persistent roots – and therefore the perennial nature – of what it describes as the ‘authoritarian personality’ remains influential in the analysis of authoritarian populism in the contemporary world, as evidenced by several recent studies. Yet the tendency in these studies is to reference the final formulation of the category, as expressed in Theodor Adorno and co-thinkers’ The Authoritarian Personality (1950), as if this were a theoretical readymade that can be unproblematically inserted into a measured assessment of the threat to democracy posed by current authoritarian trends. It is high time that the theoretical commitments and political stakes in the category of the authoritarian personality are re-evaluated, in light of the evolution of the Frankfurt School. In this paper, I review the classical theories of the authoritarian personality, arguing that two quite different versions of the theory – one characterological, the other psychodynamic – can be extracted from Frankfurt School research.

Mapping Logistical Capitalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 026327642199042
Author(s):  
Eugene Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Racial Capitalism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Black Lives Matter ◽  
Class Composition

This review article engages with a rich field of scholarship on logistics that has gathered momentum over the past decade, focusing on two new publications by Laleh Khalili and Martín Arboleda. It contextualizes how and why logistics is bound up with the militarization of contemporary political and social life. I argue that the later 20th century rise of logistics can be better understood as both a response to and symptom of capitalist crisis and I situate this scholarship on war and logistics in relationship to Giovanni Arrighi’s account of crisis and ‘unravelling hegemony’. I also show how logistics provides essential critical and visual resources that contribute to efforts to map global capitalism and to debates on totality and class composition in contemporary critical theory. Finally, contemporary events such as the ongoing Coronavirus crisis and the reemergence of Black Lives Matter are considered in light of this analysis with reference to the centrality of logistics to racial capitalism.

scholarly journals GREBEG MAULUD DALAM REPRESENTASI BUSANA DAN MOTIF BATIK DI KERATON YOGYAKARTA

CORAK ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Renta Vulkanita Hasan
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Dress Code ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Native Culture ◽  
Change Culture ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Holy Book

Culture growing in Indonesia and overseas intrinsically dynamic. Nature of culture as a result ofhuman creativity is always moving and displacement. When his journey to the vibrant place anyway,culture is likely to mix with the native culture which then grow and develop into a new culture.Culture is a strong factor that affects the mindset. Over time, society has a way of looking at theworld deal, behave, and interact with each other. In other words, they have their own color andpattern of the deal while making rules in social life. Yogyakarta in Java, which is known as one of thecultural centers of Java development, especially ritual Grebeg Maulud. Ritual Grebeg Maulud overtime reflecting the constantly changing movement of social change, culture, politics, economics andsociety in his day. Ritual is a means of connecting Grebeg Maulud transcendental between man andGod (Manunggaling Kawula-Gusti) and guidance from the teachings of the holy book (Islam). But thistime Grebeg Maulud also has another function, namely as a spectacle. This suggests a cultural shiftfrom the sacred to the profane. Batik as a dress code in the Carnival celebrations Grebeg Maulud isone reflection of the existence of culture in Yogyakarta Palace. The use of batik in a ritual processionGrebeg Maulud is a tradition that continues to this day. Batik palace is considered one of the symbolsof the existence of power relations by creating a specific motive for a particular class. Dynamism ofculture led to the use of batik is not only a marker of power relations, but also as an exciting treat forthe fashion show at the Carnival lasts Grebeg Maulud. Keyword: Grebeg, Maulud, representations, clothing, batik, palace, Yogyakarta

Geographers and sexual difference: feminist contributions

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Geographical Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Family ◽  
Definition Of

Divisions based on the assumption that men and women are different from one another permeate all areas of social life as well as varying across space and between places. In the home and in the family, in the classroom or in the labour market, in politics, and in power relations, men and women are assumed to be different, to have distinct rights and obligations that affect their daily lives and their standard of living. Thirty years ago, there were no courses about gender in British geography departments. This chapter discusses the challenges to geographical knowledge, and to the definition of knowledge more generally, that have arisen from critical debates about the meaning of difference and diversity in feminist scholarship. It examines a number of significant conceptual ideas, namely: the public and the private; sex, gender and body; difference, identity and intersectionality; knowledge; and justice. Finally, it comments on the role of feminism in the academy as a set of political practices as well as epistemological claims.

Paul and Philosophy

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-99
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Walter Benjamin ◽  
Carl Schmitt ◽  
Intellectual Life ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Conceptual Revolution

Taubes’s readings of Paul demonstrate a hermeneutical art of disagreement within the intellectual life of post-Holocaust Europe. Taubes is a reader who looks for intellectual enemies with whom he can achieve a true disagreement without dismissing their true insights, whether they are historical or philosophical. This hermeneutic is not unattached to Taubes’s Jewish background but reflects a Talmudic spirit inherent within Taubes’s idiosyncratic readings of Paul. Moreover, Taubes’s readings are attuned to nuances, ambivalences, and contradictions within Paul, as Taubes powerfully demonstrates in his exegesis of 1 Corinthians. With the help of Nietzsche’s polemical reading of this Pauline epistle, Taubes detects the instances where Paul’s doctrine of the cross revolutionizes ancient perceptions and passages that contain the power to neutralize this very same conceptual revolution. This results in Taubes’s image of a contradictory apostle, who can be used throughout history for various purposes. In Taubes’s case, Paul becomes a messianic thinker and part of Taubes’s efforts to establish a powerful synthesis of the insights of Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt—against what Taubes considers as the merely aesthetic tradition of “critical theory” in Theodor Adorno that remains indifferent to the historical struggles of the excluded.

The Psyche in Late Capitalism I

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Y. Fong
Keyword(s):  
Culture Industry ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Max Horkheimer ◽  
Theodor Adorno ◽  
Drive Theory

Employs the drive theory developed in the first three chapters toward a reinterpretation of the culture industry thesis of Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 212-224
Author(s):  
Phillip Brown
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
Future Prospects ◽  
Distributional Conflict ◽  
Way Of Thinking

This concluding chapter provides arguments based on mounting research evidence showing that, for many, learning is not earning. It also rests on the contention that historical possibilities exist to improve the quality of individual and social life through the transformation of economic means—in other words, by developing a new way of thinking about human capital. The chapter goes on to confront future prospects for the new human capital, even as these prospects depend on rebalancing the power relations between capital and labor. To conclude, the chapter calls for a different narrative that connects with the disconnections in people’s lives—their sense of disappointment, alienation, and unfairness. However, the distributional conflict revealed at the very heart of capitalism, which is central to the crisis of human capital, remains to be resolved.

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