Name: Culture Industry Today
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Culture Industry Today

Edited By: Fabio A. Durão

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The concept of culture industry leads a double life. This book is a contribution to a critical tradition that explores the term in relation to media, philosophy, and consumption, showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness corroborates its darkest content.

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to…

The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand, it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in reference to a branch of business; on the other, it is a notion belonging to a critical tradition that wants to preserve the tension resulting from the juxtaposition of these two words. Culture Industry Today is a contribution to the latter trend, which takes into account the current prevalence of the former. By offering interpretations of the term in relation to philosophy, media, television, the Third World, the psyche and the culture of consumption, the book aims at showing the continued relevance of an expression whose muteness is the corroboration of its darkest content.

Fabio Akcelrud Durão is Professor of Literary Theory at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He is the author of Modernism and Coherence: Four Chapters of a Negative Aesthetics (2008), co-edited Modernist Group Dynamics: The Politics and Poetics of Friendship (2008) at Cambridge Scholars, and published several essays on modernism, the Frankfurt School and Brazilian critical theory.

Contributors include: Robert Hullot-Kentor, Heinz Steinert, Yoshikazu Takemine, Rodrigo Duarte, Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Gerhard Richter, Jonathan Dettman and Fabio Akcelrud Durão.