In 1954 Adorno wrote, "if one were to condense what the ideology of mass culture comes down to into a single sentence, one would have to represent it with the parodic statement: “become what you are.” Adorno offered a series of important lectures on the concept of ideology with Max Horkheimer in the wake of the Second World War. They argued against the liberal sociologists such as Mannheim and Weber's conceptions of ideology, and they also called for a new Marxist understanding of ideology.
In this episode, we discuss the history of the concept of ideology up to Adorno's important intervention. This conversation is based on a newly translated article "Contribution to the Theory of Ideology" by Adorno and translated by our guest Jacob Bard-Rosenberg. Dr. Rosenberg has recently completed a Ph.D. on Adorno and Benjamin on memory, forgetting and dreams. You can download his dissertation here. To read Rosenberg's review of Adorno's article on ideology, please go here.
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Gaza Now: A Palestinian Perspective (feat. Mohammed Sulaiman)
Politically Red: What Does it Mean to Read as a Marxist? (feat. Sara Nadal-Melsió & Eduardo Cadava)
Marxism and the Absence of Socialism in America: A Conversation with Carlos Garrido
The Vicissitudes of Identity Politics On the Left (feat. Sudip Bhattacharya)
Drugs in America: From Prohibition to the 21st Century Binge feat. Ben Fong
Lacan on Religion and Theology feat. Mark Gerard Murphy
Is Liberal Socialism a Contradiction? (feat. Matt McManus)
Marxism and the Radical Enlightenment: A Debate feat. Max Tomba and Landon Frim
Sartre’s Marxist Turn? A Discussion on the Critique of Dialectical Reason feat. Terry Pinkard
Palestine and the Actuality of Struggle: A Forum with BICAR
The War On Gaza, Hamas and Political Islam feat. Mohammed Sulaiman
Marx and Critical Social Ontology: Learning from the Later Lukács feat. Michael J. Thompson
Palestine: Understanding the War on Gaza feat. Anita Zsurzsán and Jamil Khader
What is the Warm-Stream of Marxism? feat. Tijana Okić
Understanding Class Politics: Bourdieu with Marx feat. Lisa Mckenzie
Daniel Bensaïd and the Renewal of Marxism feat. Darren Roso
In Defense of Žižek? A Discussion with Matthew Flisfeder
On the Meaning of Revolution feat. C. Derick Varn (Part II)
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