"Adorno's "Strategy of Hibernation

Despite its widespread reputation, Adorno's remark is unclear. What is “garbage”? Is it a metaphor for ideology? He would not use such a cheap metaphor. As Adorno and Horkheimer had argued earlier: “The development toward total integration” produced a culture industry as a mechanism of totalitarian administration. In the era of fully developed capitalism, cultural institutions and mass media have become absorbed by multinational corporations and local or national governments that generously subsidize them. Today, cultural control and administration are much more important than economic operations. Indeed, economic operations cannot effectively function unless they are preceded by cultural efforts. The destruction of culture as an autonomous sphere was not a sudden accident of National Socialism, but the result of basic tendencies in bourgeois society that had long been antagonistic even toward its own literature

Bourgeoisie · Capitalism · Communism · Ideology · Metaphor · Multinational corporation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Socialism · Sociology · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Law · Philosophy

• Towards dialectic listening

  Mário Vieira De Carvalho, Mário António Pinto Vieira Carvalho•Contemporary Music Review•1999

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