Theodor W. Adorno’s scientific contributions

... A modern administrator, Kraus would never reproduce the conditions of autonomy required for "culture" by Adorno, who found these conditions in the Schoenberg circle of 1920s Vienna. 61 Nevertheless, the broader vision of the early Gesellschaft under Wolfgang Kraus in which the expansion of space occupied by culture would lead to a shrinking of the space available for the state was anything but a call for an activist Austrian Kulturstaat. Indeed, given the deep-set association between the image of Austria and the idea of a "culture nation," it needs to be repeated that Kraus considered the role of the state in culture to be harmful. ...

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Searching for an Alternative Austrian Cultural Diplomacy: Wolfgang Kraus with Heinrich Drimmel

... Propaganda (through media) is a means of manipulation using rationally, quasi-scientific calculated (psychological) methods of dominating the perceived "irrationality" of the masses (see Adorno 1982); but also used as a means to signal the regime's strength in maintaining social and political order. 3 ...

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Historical memory, reimagining the present: The spatial politics of monuments in Thailand and Sri Lanka

... The origin of the term creative industries is traced to Australia from where it extended to the United Kingdom (DCA 1994; Department of Culture Media and Sports 1998). The coinage of cultural industries is credited to two German Philosophers and Critical theory scholars named Theodore Adorno andMax Horkheimer in 1948 (Adorno andBernstein 2020). Although the origin of CCI is traceable to the 1940s, it did not emerge as an issue of scholarly and policy scrutiny until the 1990s and 2000s (Flew 2017). ...

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Subjectivity and Social Order: What Can Big Brother Naija Teach Us About the (Rule of) Law?

... So, apart from how each of the objects illustrated above might be seen as symbolizing different musical meanings, they all also refer to and uphold the idea of the musical work. Thus, because the illustrations are not only presented separately but also occur together, they emphasize the idea of a 'musical whole' or 'aesthetic totality' that Adorno (2001) describes as desirable. In other words, the cellophane-wrapped products in Figure 1 can be understood as representing not only a variety of meanings but also the idea of a musical whole. ...

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Exchange and negotiation of value when symphonic music is marketed as a commodity.Exchange and negotiation of value when symphonic music is marketed as a commodity

... If human beings completely hand over the right of active creativity to AI, only passively consume creativity, and even equate the consumption of creativity with creativity itself, human natural creativity will be seriously damaged. "That complacency, passivity and credulity of thought" [5] also exists in the AI era. Of course, this does not mean the complete exclusion of digital technology, but the need for digital technology to return to the tool standard, making human realize "digitization is a means" [6] and maintain the active role of natural creativity in social and historical development. ...

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From "Art Is Experience" to "Culture Is Creativity": The Reform of Public Aesthetic Education in Digital Society

... 16 In the context of late capitalist modernity, culture is less a reflection of the actual life-processes of the elements that constitute it, than it is the latter that come to appear as mere instances of an ersatz culture, or in a more Adornian vein, a totally administered, homogeneous and homogenizing "pseudo-culture." 17 The other side of the loss of experience in late capitalist reality has to do with the scientification-or better, the scientistication-and instrumentalization of thought. This trend is distinguished by the faith it places in the notion of "positive infinity"-a notion that converges with the Adornian concept of identity -, namely, the presumption that after all is said and done "simply everything should go into its determinations without a remainder." ...

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Situating the Concept of Event in Theodor W. Adorno’s Philosophy