The hobby concept shows free time is reified like labour itself
Evidence
If we suppose with Marx that in bourgeois society labour power has become a commodity in which labour is consequently reified, then the expression ‘hobby’ amounts to a paradox: that human condition which sees itself as the opposite of reification, the oasis of unmediated life within a completely mediated total system, has itself been reified just like the rigid distinction between labour and free time. — Theodor W. Adorno, The Culture Industry, 274
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines the reification paradox at the heart of the hobby concept.
- XREF: connects to: Modern leisure organizes activity so rigidly that its schema outweighs its content; Mass culture occupies workers’ leisure with content stamped by the labor process they endure; Work and amusement have converged in structure while growing more strictly separated (+3 more)
Related
- The hobby, an oasis of unmediated life, is itself reified (similarity 0.93)
- Work and amusement have converged in structure while growing more strictly separated (similarity 0.86)
- Modern leisure organizes activity so rigidly that its schema outweighs its content (similarity 0.84)
- Production-process forms increasingly colonize private leisure time (similarity 0.82)
- Mass culture occupies workers’ leisure with content stamped by the labor process they endure (similarity 0.82)
- Mass amusement reproduces the mechanized work process in leisure (similarity 0.82)
- Free time must differ from work so that work can resume effectively (similarity 0.81)
- The culture industry administers free time by the same rules as production (similarity 0.80)
- In postmodern capitalism even the hobby gets institutionalized and organized. (similarity 0.80)