Theodor Adorno and the Culture Industry

About the lecture

After this, we'll discuss the work of Theodor Adorno on culture industries and how this precedes the work of Jean Baudrillard. In particular, we will focus on: (i) Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno and the work of the Frankfurt School; (ii) The Dialectic of Enlightenment and what the culture industry theory tells us; and (iii) the impact of the culture industry thesis on contemporary media studies.

About the lecturer

Dr Ross Abbinnett is Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Theory at the University of Birmingham. His recent publications include The Neoliberal Imagination: Politics, Aesthetics, and Economics in the Evolution of Hyper-Industrial Capitalism (2021), The Thought of Bernard Stiegler: Capitalism, Technology and the Politics of Spirit (2018) and Marxism After Modernity: Politics, Technology and Social Transformation (2006).