Literary Foundation

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Saturday, 8 June 2024

Quotes from novel Prophet Song

 Simon"If you change the ownership of institutions then you can change the ownership of facts, you can alter the structure of belief, what is agreed upon""If you say one thing is another thing and you say it enough times, then it must be so, and if you keep saying it over and over people accept it as true""Sooner or later, of course, reality reveals itself, he says, you can borrow for a time against reality but reality is always waiting, patiently, silently, to exact a price and level the scales" Eilish Stack"All boys grow up and pull...

Friday, 7 June 2024

What is Culture Industry?

The term Culture Industry was coined by two German thinkers Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno in their book Dialectic of Enlightenment, in 1944. As per PK Nayer, the 'Culture Industry' is mainly used to describe mass culture forms. It transforms an individual from a thinking and discerning individual into an unthinking individual. The Culture Industry does not want the consumer to think but merely consume. In the Marxist's view 'Culture' is not an abstract thing that is created by an individual genius. Rather, it is a product...