marxistsoncouches:

“the culture industry does not so much adapt to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. by taking something objectively horrendous and wringing consumable qualities out of it — ‘witty’, ‘cute’, and so forth — it brutalizes far more than mere sensibility.”

THIS IS ADORNO DRESSING UP AS JEAN GENET*

*AS FAR AS I’M CONCERNED, ANYWAY