A Re-examination of the Concept of Culture-Building Industry مقاله

خلاصه ماشینی:

Undoubtedly, the self-containment of works of art, which rarely possessed pure, total mastery in shape or form and were always under the influence of a system of effects, is being executed by the culture industry, as well as by those who [in a political, social, or economic way] hold the power of [this industry]. [Here, industry] refers to the standardization and homogenization of the thing itself [meaning the industry of producing cultural products or the flow of producing so-called artistic works]; for example, like the homogenization of Western films that any moviegoer can understand, and also to the rationalization of the distribution of techniques, but it does not refer entirely to the production process itself. The culture industry finds its ideological foundation in the fact that it precisely preserves itself from the full potentiality of the techniques present in its productions; in other words, it feeds and lives in a parasitic manner on supra-artistic techniques of the material production of things—disregarding the requirement for an internal artistic totality that indicates its function, and also disregarding the laws of shape or form that demand an aesthetic self-foundation. Among those intellectuals who are concerned with finding a way of compromise with this phenomenon [meaning the culture industry] and are also eager to obtain a common and universal formula to express their doubts against it and also to show their respect to it, a tone of ironic tolerance prevails; except, of course, among those who have already created a new myth of the twentieth century, based on a kind of imposed regression.