Administration always shaped cultural production, not just modern times
Evidence
The rigid opposition of culture and administration in thought, the product of a social and spiritual situation which attempts at the same time to force the two together, has nonetheless always been a questionable matter. In art history it is well known that wherever the artifacts of the past manifest the demand for collective labour - and this extends deep into the individual production of significant architects, sculptors and painters - administration spoke with a decisive voice. For that reason even in the past administration by no means lived in happy harmony with those who today unhesitatingly call themselves the creators of culture - a romantic desire fondly projected backward into history. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 156
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- XREF: Contradicts the romantic artist-myth that the reader must set aside when applying Adorno’s method to new cultural objects.
Related
- Culture atrophies under administration yet cannot survive unadministered (similarity 0.83)
- Avant-garde culture thrives where administration has not fully taken hold (similarity 0.82)
- Administered culture degrades while unadministered culture cannot survive (similarity 0.82)
- Administration has shifted from governing over mechanisms to dominating spheres of freedom. (similarity 0.81)
- The culture industry administers free time by the same rules as production (similarity 0.79)