Entertainment was rationalized in step with industrial factory rationalization

Evidence

At the very same moment at which the factories are being rationalized, these establishments [i.e. the Haus Vaterland', the Resi’ or Residenz-Kino, and the `Moka-Efti’ in Berlin] are rationalizing the amusements provided for the armies of non-manual workers. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 133

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the chapter’s earlier point that Berlin’s entertainment palaces rationalized mass amusement in time with factory rationalization — here as Kracauer’s on-the-ground observation. — connects to: Berlin’s palatial entertainment palaces rationalized mass amusement in parallel with factory rationalization. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 468
• SEED: Angle: a short essay on how leisure infrastructure is industrialized in lockstep with production — Weimar Berlin as the case study for today’s attention economy.

Broader Connections

• Berlin’s palatial entertainment palaces rationalized mass amusement in parallel with factory rationalization. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 468