The culture industry both presupposes and manufactures distracted listeners

Evidence

The moment of recognition is that of effortless sensation. The sudden attention attached to this moment burns itself out instanter and relegates the listener to a realm of inattention and distraction. On the one hand, the domain of production and plugging presupposes distraction and, on the other, produces it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 267

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes the reader’s kept claim that industrial wealth created the leisure class it then condemned, and the Adorno note on industrial factory noise disabling normal reactions. — connects to: Capital exploits exhaustion to capture attention that would otherwise go to serious culture — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2261; The culture industry’s products prescribe reactions through signals to forbid reflection — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 107; Listening is cultivated and creates culture — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 481 (+8 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Capital exploits exhaustion to capture attention that would otherwise go to serious culture — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 2261; The culture industry’s products prescribe reactions through signals to forbid reflection — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 107; Listening is cultivated and creates culture — Pauline Oliveros, Deep Listening, 481 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Capitalism neutralised boredom by demanding audience participation, not pacification #complicates (0.73) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1763