Cultural politics and globalized infomedia

C. L. R. James, Theodor Adorno and Mass Culture Criticism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3400751
AutoresBinta Alleyne (0000-0002-5275-9292, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente), Brian W Alleyne
Ano1999
Volume1
Fascículo3
Páginas361-372
Data de publicação1999-01-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInterventions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698019900510571
OpenAlexW1584480262
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4
Referências citadas18

The mass culture and information technology industries — infomedia — are at the leading edge of the processes of globalization. These infomedia industries are organized by and in the interest of northern elites as part of the unequal global balance of power and resources. But infomedia, provided that they are subjected to searching critique, do offer to cultural activists resources that may be turned towards radical democratic projects. Both C. L. R. James and Theodor Adorno brought a radical humanist consciousness to bear on the mass culture industries in the USA in the immediate postwar period. Though their conclusions differed, their analyses taken together can provide cultural activists with effective tools for reading both the pitfalls and potentials of the emergent infomedia industries

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