Theodor W. Adorno

...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

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

...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

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

...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

...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

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

...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

...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

...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