Culture-industry products are consumed but not actually believed.
Evidence
Perhaps one can go even further and say that it is not quite believed in. It is obvious that the integration of consciousness and free time has not yet completely succeeded. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 267
Categorization
Category: Contrarian or Surprising Claims
- QUESTION: Does ironic consumption — liking a post while distrusting it — count as ‘not quite believed in’ and thus a site of resistance or just the next mode of integration?
- XREF: Pairs with ‘not quite believed in’ against Judith Butler’s reading of the double body in care work — the split between performance and genuine intent.
Related
- The culture industry does not fully determine what consumers think and feel. (similarity 0.80)
- Consumers buy culture-industry products knowing they are being manipulated (similarity 0.80)
- The culture industry rules by manufacturing the needs it satisfies (similarity 0.79)
- Total cultural integration fails because individual resistance survives. (similarity 0.79)
- The culture industry’s deception is ruining genuine amusement, not supplying it (similarity 0.79)
- Culture consumed as consumer goods manipulates people rather than liberating them. (similarity 0.78)