This week
we read a couple of chapters in the book “Dialetic of Enlightenment”. Some parts were a bit
easier to read than others, and I didn't find it quite as hard to read as last week. But it was still a great challenge, and it took
forever. I’ve learned about
enlightenment and myths, which I had no knowledge around before. During the lecture I hoped to get an even better picture, but I didn’t feel like I learned that much, I probably lost focus. Therefore I read the other
students posts to learn a bit more.
The chapter I found most interesting reading was “Enlightenment of Mass deception”, and that is also what I found most interesting to read about in the other students’ blog posts. Culture industry is what mass production has done to culture. Culture now a days is treated more as a product that as art, and money is the focus. Since there are a few people controlling what reaches the audience, they can easily control what kind of culture people get exposed to and what is set as a standard. What I found really interesting is how we are contributing to mass culture without really even knowing it. Companies try to map our habits and from that data make their product as attractive as possible to as many people as possible. That means that they can determine what culture is. Adorno and Horkheimer criticize this, saying that the industry controls humanity in the same way as a dictator would do, I feel that this is kind of true. And it is strange that money is what determines what kind of culture we get exposed to.
The chapter I found most interesting reading was “Enlightenment of Mass deception”, and that is also what I found most interesting to read about in the other students’ blog posts. Culture industry is what mass production has done to culture. Culture now a days is treated more as a product that as art, and money is the focus. Since there are a few people controlling what reaches the audience, they can easily control what kind of culture people get exposed to and what is set as a standard. What I found really interesting is how we are contributing to mass culture without really even knowing it. Companies try to map our habits and from that data make their product as attractive as possible to as many people as possible. That means that they can determine what culture is. Adorno and Horkheimer criticize this, saying that the industry controls humanity in the same way as a dictator would do, I feel that this is kind of true. And it is strange that money is what determines what kind of culture we get exposed to.
Since I was
not able to attend the seminar, I asked my friends what they discussed and
found the part about censorship interesting. Ever since I visited China I have
thought that censorship is something bad.
The Chinese people should be able to choose for themselves what to
access and not, and so should I. But censorship isn’t always a bad thing; for
example censoring child pornography is a good thing, I think we can all agree
on that. But censoring Facebook and Google in China seems unnecessary. All
countries and people are different and have different beliefs, so why should
one person, company or government get to decide what to censor and not...
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