Dialectic of Enlightenment

Horkheimer, Max; Adorno, Theodor W.

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“…En el contexto europeo, que a menudo domina en las discusiones e imaginario del genocidio y la violencia del siglo XX, la escuela de Frankfurt estuvo entre las primeras corrientes intelectuales en despertar del sueño de la modernidad ilustrada. (Connerton, 1976, p. 26-27;Horkheimer & Adorno, 1997) "Artefactos" como los campos de concentración mostraron a la "conciencia europea" el lado más destructivo de la modernidad precisamente en lo tocante a tecnologías de la represión (Bauman, 1998;Gonzalez-Ruibal, 2008). Los ejemplos aquí discutidos permiten enriquecer dichos debates rebatiendo nociones lineales de temporalidad implícitas en las ideas de modernización, modernidad, etc.…”

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Desarrollismo, tortura e internación

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2020

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Durante la segunda mitad del s. XX el Estado Brasileño emprendió un camino político y económico desarrollista. Dicho modelo hacía de la adopción de fórmulas económicas y tecnológicas de los Estados Unidos una de las claves para la modernización de la sociedad. El análisis de las tecnologías represivas desarrolladas por la dictadura de 1964-1985 en el Estado de Minas Gerais permite poner los esfuerzos de modernización de la dictadura en relación con la violencia política. Al mismo tiempo, dichas tecnologías muestran contradicciones más amplias del modelo desarrollista que remiten a los aspectos coloniales de la matriz moderna.

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“…Weber's views on technology are closely linked with his concerns about rationality and bureaucracy, which influence Horkheimer and Adorno, Mumford and James Carey. Weberian concerns about bureaucracy and social order touch the dialectic of rationality; as Horkheimer and Adorno (1944) put it, "[t]he paradoxical nature of faith ultimately degenerates into a swindle, and becomes the myth of the twentieth century; and its irrationality turns it into an instrument of rational administration by the wholly enlightenment as they steer society toward barbarism" (p. 20). Horkheimer and Adorno's (1944) fear of cultural industries stems from "instrumental reason," which resonates with institutionalization, industrialization, standardization and rationalization.…”

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“…Weberian concerns about bureaucracy and social order touch the dialectic of rationality; as Horkheimer and Adorno (1944) put it, "[t]he paradoxical nature of faith ultimately degenerates into a swindle, and becomes the myth of the twentieth century; and its irrationality turns it into an instrument of rational administration by the wholly enlightenment as they steer society toward barbarism" (p. 20). Horkheimer and Adorno's (1944) fear of cultural industries stems from "instrumental reason," which resonates with institutionalization, industrialization, standardization and rationalization. Their dialectical thinking that "[i]nner and external domination go together" (Peters, 2003, p. 63) implies that the exploitation of modern technology involves more than class dominion and an unequal distribution of economic resources: material reality does matter, yet so does consciousness, and on this point Horkheimer and Adorno are under the influence of Weber.…”

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“…Pointing to Kate Smith's war bonding radio marathon program as an example, Merton (1946) argues that out media celebrity feign personal intimacy in pseudo-environments as pseudo-individuals (Horkheimer & Adorno, 1944). It is Horton and Wohl (1956) who advocate the theory of para-social interaction in which sincerity is feigned through imaginary bonding.…”

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This dissertation concerns the relationship between the liberating potential of an individuals' use of new media and the various institutional constraints on that. While I aim to explore the emancipatory potential of YouTube, I seek not to lose sight of the cultural, historical and political forces that limit individual use of it. This dissertation examines YouTube from agent, institution and text perspectives, the triangle of media studies. Each perspective illustrates tensions and conflicts between the personal and the public, amateurism and professionalism, narrowcasting and broadcasting, and User-Generated Content (UGC) and Professionally-Generated Content (PGC).Technological development promises the expansion of the human being, the empowerment of individuals and widening opportunities of communication through personalized media. Amateur users take advantage of the convenience and accessibility in YouTube, and consequently they have a chance to deeply engage in the media content production-distributionconsumption-feedback system. With its encouragement of amateur video production, this new medium seems to have the capability to change the nature of media users, from passive audiences to active creators. However, the myth of the active user is inseparable from celebrity culture. Self-expression on the web is often imbued with the fascination with fame, but is not the same as user empowerment. Amateurism in UGC came to be compromised when the line between UGC and PGC started to blur. From a techno futuristic perspective, YouTube seems to make the audience into interactive users, but that interactivity is close to active consumption in the realm of disposable celebrity. The development of mass media always involves a tension between mass communication and interpersonal communication. Historically, YouTube is positioned within the development of 2 personalized media. YouTube is an evolutionary medium under the influence of traditional broadcasting, rather than a revolutionary medium discontinuous from media history. What contemporary people think new about YouTube are likely the consequences of technological evolution rather than those of media revolution. Exploring YouTube, I do not deny the convenience and accessibility of UGC media, but I do not want to lose sight of the legacy of amateurism, individualism and user participation. Abstract Approved: ____________________________________ Thesis Supervisor ____________________________________

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“…Critical theory emerged in the 1960s, in large part out of the Frankfurt school (Marcuse 1964, Horkheimer 1972. Critical theory attempts to democratize the technoscientific paradigm of development and progress.…”

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Emerging bridges over contested waters: coalitions, participatory process, social capital and community capacity for water quality protection

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