# 2020-05-18



## The culture industry

Been listening to The Partially Examined Life [episode about Adorno on the Culture Industry](https://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2016/03/28/ep136-1-adorno/).  The [[culture industry]] being the mass production of films etc for the purposes of rendering people docile and perfect for the consumption of unnecessary goods.

They say [[Adorno]] (/Horkheimer) very explicitly wanted it referred to as a culture **industry**, to make clear it was driven from above and imposed.  Not a natural representation of the desires of the masses.  

Can definitely see the parallels with the [[social industry]] and guess this is probably why Richard Seymour used that name in [[The Twittering Machine]].