The Frankfurt School’s Theodor Adorno, “culture industry” theorist, foresaw the rise of Trump. He looked to modernism, including modernist literature, as an antidote.
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Culture Theorist Foresaw Trump’s Rise
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How Capitalism Threatens Art
The Frankfurt School studied how culture gets subsumed by capitalism. We need to start reading Adorno and Benjamin again.
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