Industria cultural: génesis y actualidad de un concepto crítico
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2018
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Maiso J. (2018). Industria cultural: génesis y actualidad de un concepto crítico. Escritura e Imagen, 14, 133-148.
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El presente ensayo parte del destino histórico del concepto de “industria cultural” para intentar recuperar su potencial crítico con vistas al análisis de la sociedad contemporánea. El término fue acuñado en Dialéctica de la Ilustración, y se trata tanto de entender su sentido entonces como de sondear su posible vigencia hoy. En primer lugar se da cuenta de cómo para Adorno el análisis de la industria cultural era una clave para comprender las transformaciones de la socialización capitalista en su fase post-liberal, y no puede entenderse al margen de estas. Más adelante se intenta sondear si es posible reapropiarse de ese concepto para analizar fenómenos contemporáneos. Se intenta así plantear una actualización del diagnóstico de la industria cultural a partir de los procesos de digitalización, virtualización del mundo de la vida y transformación de las relaciones laborales con el propósito de iluminar las relaciones hoy vigentes entre la sociedad capitalista, el lugar de la cultura y las condiciones de vida.
The present paper aims at reappropriating the critical potential of the critique of the culture industry for the analysis of contemporary society. The term “culture industry” was coined in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, and the attempt is both to understand its significance in the midst of the 20th Century and its possible validity today. Firstly the paper sketches what is at stake in Theodor W. Adorno’s analysis, attempting to clarify some of the most wide-spread missunderstandings in its reception. For Adorno, culture industry was above all a crucial concept in order to comprehend the transformations of capitalism in its post-liberal stage. Later on, the paper attempts to reappropriate this analysis in order to illuminate contemporary phenomena. The attempt is to update the critical diagnostic of the culture industry in the light of the current processes of digitalization, virtualization of the lifeworld and transformation of the labor relations. This aims at an understandig of the actual relations between socialization, culture and the living conditions
The present paper aims at reappropriating the critical potential of the critique of the culture industry for the analysis of contemporary society. The term “culture industry” was coined in the Dialectic of Enlightenment, and the attempt is both to understand its significance in the midst of the 20th Century and its possible validity today. Firstly the paper sketches what is at stake in Theodor W. Adorno’s analysis, attempting to clarify some of the most wide-spread missunderstandings in its reception. For Adorno, culture industry was above all a crucial concept in order to comprehend the transformations of capitalism in its post-liberal stage. Later on, the paper attempts to reappropriate this analysis in order to illuminate contemporary phenomena. The attempt is to update the critical diagnostic of the culture industry in the light of the current processes of digitalization, virtualization of the lifeworld and transformation of the labor relations. This aims at an understandig of the actual relations between socialization, culture and the living conditions