The culture industry’s apparent ordering function actually destroys order

Evidence

The most ambitious defense of the culture industry today celebrates its spirit, which might safely be called ideology, as an ordering factor. In a supposedly chaotic world it provides human beings with something like standards for orientation, and that alone seems worthy of approval. However, what its defenders imagine is preserved by the culture industry is in fact all the more thoroughly destroyed by it. — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 837

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The culture industry is defined by repetition under a false formula of totality; The culture industry’s false harmony is more sinister than open contradiction — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 650; Culture industry commodities are useless yet disguise their uselessness as utility — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 836 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Culture industry commodities are useless yet disguise their uselessness as utility #corroborates (0.85) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 836
• Modern visions of order generate the very disaffection they aim to cure #corroborates (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 431
• Cultural stasis is constant novelty without ordered sequential change #qualifies (0.75) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 18