Theodor W. Adorno
Critic, Composer, and Philosopher
Cracked Media: The Sound of Malfunction by Caleb Kelly (Review)...sonic media. Kelly also finds space to consider the criticisms leveled against recording technology by thinkers such as Theodor Adorno and Jacques Attali. Practitioners of cracked media, according to Kelly, resist such positions... In this article: Theodor Adorno, Nam June Paik, and Prague |
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Guardian | November 07, 2009
Al Gore: 'Civil disobedience has a role to play'
...and the unknown is now routinely disrespected," he writes, in a typically Goreish sentence, immediately prior to quoting Theodor Adorno, King Solomon and Aesop. Primarily, though, Our Choice is a sumptuously illustrated coffee-table book of...
In this article: Al Gore, Barack Obama, Global warming, Carbon, Climate change, George Bush, Oscar, Time Magazine, Tipper Gore, and Copenhagen
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Wikipedia | October 14, 2009
Theodor W. Adorno
Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 - August 6, 1969) was a German -born international intellectual, sociologist , philosopher , musicologist , and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max...
In this article: Max Horkheimer, Philosophy, Walter Benjamin, Arnold Schoenberg, Capitalism, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitat, Georg Lukacs, and Karl Popper
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Kotaku | October 09, 2009
When the Going Gets Tough... Let the Game Play Itself [Well Played]
...what to do." Bogost raises the same concerns. And, he says, the Super Guide could be considered the byproduct of what philosophers Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer termed the culture industry, essentially popular culture mass produced to...
In this article: Nintendo, Theodor Adorno, Princess Peach, New Super Mario Bros., Internet Explorer, and Super Mario Bros
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The Daily Iowan | October 02, 2009
Medium: Sharing the Glee
When Rachel and Finn pine for "Somebody to Love," we relive our own soulful searches for that special someone. Social theorist Theodor Adorno once wrote, "Music no longer serves direct needs not benefits from direct application, but...
In this article: Glee, Single Ladies, Crazy in Love, High School Musical, Theodor Adorno, Emmy, Nat King Cole, Beyonce, and Cabaret
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L.A. Times - The Arts | September 18, 2009
Loving Wagner anyway
...of killing a dragon to acquire a hoard of gold and a magic ring that Mime plans to keep for himself. The German theorist Theodore Adorno called Mime the "ghetto Jew" and accused Wagner of making all his rejects caricatures of Jews. It...
In this article: Richard Wagner, Siegfried, Percy Grainger, Judaism, Tristan, Giacomo Meyerbeer, and Michael Jackson
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Guardian Unlimited | September 02, 2009
Where are today's public intellectuals?
...and it has stayed with me. As he notes, there was a time when the greatest minds of the day took note of the theatre, whether it be Theodor Adorno turning over the implications of Beckett's Endgame or Susan Sontag musing on the legacy of...
In this article: Susan Sontag, Theodor Adorno, Robert Wilson, Aesthetics, JavaScript, Berliner Ensemble, and Endgame
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Wikipedia | August 17, 2009
Culture industry
Culture industry is a term coined by Theodor Adorno (1903-69) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973), who argued in "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception," that popular culture is akin to a factory producing standardized cultural...
In this article: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Patton, Capitalism, Karl Marx, Ideology, and Communism
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L.A. Times - Books | August 16, 2009
'The Lost Origins of the Essay' by John D'Agata
...heart. Dissatisfaction is her characteristic affect. Perhaps I should have begun with a different question: What is an essay? Theodor Adorno, whose meta-essay on the subject does not find its way into D'Agata's collection, offers one...
In this article: Anxiety, Plutarch, Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius, Rumination, William Blake, Francis Ponge, and Theodor Adorno
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Wired: Underwire | August 06, 2009
A Decade Later, The Iron Giant's Weaponized Soul Still Stirs
...if he wasn't so busy pursuing his wargasm. Yet he does not, and that is Bird's brain at work: Consumed by what philosopher Theodor Adorno once controversially called the "authoritarian personality," Mansley is possessed by cynicism and...
In this article: The Iron Giant, Brad Bird, Iron Man, DVD, Itunes, Iron Man, and Superman
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PopMatters | July 29, 2009
It’s All Too Beautiful (Feature)
...but it assumes a reader conversant with the positions or works of Kant, Duchamp, Warhol and Danto. Arguably their selection from Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory is perhaps the most challenging and transformative idea here, and the...
In this article: Theodor Adorno, Elaine Scarry, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Ideology, Fascism, and Consumerism
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Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund Adorno (September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German-born international sociologist, philosopher, musicologist, and composer. He was a member of the Frankfurt School along with Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin, Herbert Marcuse, Jürgen Habermas, and others. He was also the Music Director of the Radio Project from 1937 to 1941, in the U.S.
Already as a young music critic and amateur sociologist, Theodor W. Adorno was primarily a philosophical thinker. The label social philosopher emphasizes the socially critical aspect of his philosophical thinking, which from 1945 onwards took an intellectually prominent position in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School.
- Birth Date:
- September 11, 1903
- Birthplace:
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Death Date:
- August 06, 1969
- Place of Death:
- Visp, Switzerland
- Known for:
- Culture industry, Authoritarian Personality, negative dialectics
- Period:
- 20th century philosophy
- School/Tradition:
- critical theory marxism
- Influenced By:
- Immanuel Kant Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Karl Marx Georg Lukács Karl Korsch Ernst Bloch Soren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Sigmund Freud Edmund Husserl Max Weber Max Horkheimer Walter Benjamin Franz Kafka Charles Baudelaire Arnold Schoenberg Marcel Proust Bertold Brecht
- Influenced:
- Jürgen Habermas, Peter Dews, Slavoj Zizek, Herbert Marcuse, Umberto Eco, Edward W. Said, John Zerzan, Michael Jackson, Fredric Jameson, Marshall Berman, Max Horkheimer
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