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Throughout the last few decades, our economic system has transformed society into a market, citizens into consumers, and communities into individuals
Thomas Klaffke • From Self-Reform to Worldview-Reform
Beware the Curators
Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception
marxists.orgSo the algorithm that recommends music or videos on a web platform will never deliver a totally fresh and new... See more
Ted Gioia • How to Know if You're Living in a Doom Loop
“Dans les années 1950, le philosophe Theodor Adorno mène une étude des chroniques de Carroll Righter. Pendant 3 mois, il en analyse le contenu et publie ses conclusions dans un essai, Des étoiles à terre. Adorno découvre que dans lesdites chroniques dominent deux types de conseils, aux occurrences plus fréquentes que les autres.
Premièrement, il
... See moreDaniel Parris • When Did Popular Music Become Standardized? A Statistical Analysis
“I am completely opposed to the spirit of this age, because it promotes the neglect of thought…
Today there is not only a neglect of thought but an actual distrust or depreciation of it. The organized political, social, and religious groups of our time are bent on inducing the individual to take up uncritically ready-made beliefs rather than
Die intensive Bindung verliert heute zunehmend an Bedeutung. Sie ist vor allem unproduktiv, denn allein schwache Bindungen beschleunigen Konsum und Kommunikation. So zerstört der Kapitalismus systematisch Bindungen. Auch Herzensdinge sind heute rar. Sie weichen Wegwerfartikeln. Der Fuchs fährt fort: »Die Menschen haben keine Zeit mehr, um etwas
... See moreByung-Chul Han • Undinge
The practical aim of Adorno’s critical theory is to equip individuals with the capacities that would enable them to resist integration into the fateful homogenizing institutions of capitalist society.