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Gideon Burton

Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception - 0 views

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    Critique of consumer culture from an important theorist about modernism, Theodor Adorno (with Max Horkheimer)
Gideon Burton

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Walter Benjamin) - 0 views

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    Seminal treatise about modern art, the effects of mass production of art, and film.
Andrew DeWitt

Modernism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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  • From the 1870s onward, the ideas that history and civilization were inherently progressive and that progress was always good came under increasing attack.
  • Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection undermined the religious certainty
  • Karl Marx argued there were fundamental contradictions within the capitalist system
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  • The miseries of industrial urbanism and the possibilities created by scientific examination of subjects brought changes that would shake a European civilization which had, until then, regarded itself as having a continuous and progressive line of development from the Renaissance. With the telegraph's harnessing of a new power, offering instant communication at a distance, the experience of time itself was altered.
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