Dialectic of Mass Culture: How Culture Industry Shaped the Masses
Authors
Yijia Shi
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Xi’an Jiaotong University (XJTU), Xi’an, China
*Corresponding author. Email: jennifer_yijia_shi@163.com
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Yijia Shi
Available Online 28 January 2022.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- culture industry; the masses; Enlightenment; totality; self-awakening
- Abstract
This essay uses Horkheimer and Adorno’s work on the culture industry to analyze how the culture industry shaped the masses from its historical cause and how it keeps coming into effect. While promoting individual awakening, Enlightenment created a system of totality. According to this logic, the cultural industry not only turns culture and art into commodities through capital manufacture, but also affects consumers with its productions. To a certain extent, this process makes consumers lose their self-awakening, and this result is contrary to the Enlightenment.
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- © 2022 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Yijia Shi PY - 2022 DA - 2022/01/28 TI - Dialectic of Mass Culture: How Culture Industry Shaped the Masses BT - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Art and Human Development ( ICPAHD 2021) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 1054 EP - 1057 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.220110.198 ID - Shi2022 ER -