Marcuse
This term explains how technology restructures labor and leisure, influencing life from the organization of labor to modes of thought.
What is a “technological rationality”?
Authenticity is ___ rather than being an objective truth.
What is made?
This mindset discourages people from questioning societal structures and their circumstances
What is complacency?
One-Dimensional should be used as an ____ rather than a noun.
What is an adjective?
This theorist’s framework of impression management is used by Serazio to explain the problem of the two-faced self.
Who is Erving Goffman?
Adorno argued that the culture industry produces cultural products that encourage this type of passive, uncritical engagement.
What is passive consumption?
This type of need supports self-realization and autonomy. This need also helps in people questioning social structures that limit their freedom.
What are true needs?
Scarlett Johanson being cast in Ghost in the Shell is an example of what?
What are failures of authenticities?
Term coined by Adorno for how cultural products are standardized and reproduced for social control.
What is the culture industry?
This type of need reinforces capitalism through material comforts and desires. This need also gives the illusion of freedom.
What are false needs?
Serazio examines how the media landscape demands “realness” as a commodity.
What is authenticity?
The culture industry creates this to give the audience a sense of freedom in what they consume.
What is illusion of choice?
This term explains how people focus on surface-level happiness rather than the underlying social structures that are shaping their lives. This mindset prevents people from reflecting about the culture industry, thereby reinforcing capitalism.
What is “happy consciousness”?
This term states that authenticity industries try to perform from staging the backstage. The audience demands “realness” from the performer.
What is “two-faced self”?
Adorno claimed that the culture industry reinforces this system’s social and economic organization.
What is capitalism?