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Adorno and Mass Culture: Autonomous Art Against the Culture Industry

University of Sydney, george.markus{at}arts.usyd.edu.au

Adorno’s extended conception of ‘culture industry’ renders the usual criticism of his views as ‘elitist’ meaningless. The same expansion creates, however, logical strains and contradictions in his analysis of the character and function of the culture industry: a strain in its ‘psychosocial’ and ‘status compulsion’ interpretation. In his late work Adorno attempts to solve this contradiction, but at a heavy price, by creating a conceptual barrier between pleasure and happiness.

Key Words: Adorno • autonomy of art • culture industry • pleasure and happiness

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