Pop Culture Isn`t Just Bad Art, It Has An Insidious Impact
(ArtsJournal Theatre)

Like many émigrés, Theodor Adorno was initially disoriented by US mass culture, which had not yet overrun Europe as it would after the war. This disorientation became a principled distrust. He claimed that capitalist popular culture - jazz, cinema, pop songs, and so on - manipulates us into living lives empty of true freedom, and […]