Theodor W. Adorno: Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture (1994)
Filed under book | Tags: · anti-semitism, astrology, culture, fascism, irrational, occultism, psychoanalytics
The Stars Down to Earth shows us a stunningly prescient Adorno. Haunted by the ugly side of American culture industries he used the different angles provided by each of these three essays to showcase the dangers inherent in modern obsessions with consumption. He engages with some of his most enduring themes in this seminal collection, focusing on the irrational in mass culture – from astrology to new age cults, from anti-semitism to the power of neo-fascist propaganda. He points out that the modern state and market forces serve the interest of capital in its basic form. Stephan Crook’s introduction grounds Adorno’s arguments firmly in the present where extreme religious and political organizations are commonplace – so commonplace in fact that often we deem them unworthy of our attention. Half a century ago Theodore Adorno not only recognised the dangers, but proclaimed them loudly. We did not listen then. Maybe it is not too late to listen now.
Edited with an Introduction by Stephen Crook
Publisher Routledge, 1994
Routledge classics
ISBN 0415105684, 9780415105682
176 pages
PDF (updated on 2013-6-6)
Comment (1)Oleksiy Radynski: Optical Unconscious in Visual Culture (2008) [Ukrainian]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, cinema, documentary film, film history, film theory, marxism, media theory, psychoanalytics, russia, visual culture
Study of the interaction of Marxist and psychoanalytic projects in theory and practice of documentary films in 1920s and 1930s.
В роботі досліджується взаємодія марксистського та психоаналітичного проектів в теорії та практиці неігрового кіно 1920-30-х років.
Master thesis
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Supervisor: Michael Sobutskiy