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Criticism & Theory Readings Week 4

Walter Benjamin, “The Work Of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”

Herbert Marcuse, “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics” pages 54-73.

Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer, “The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception”

We also had to read pages 88-103 and 130-133 of Herbert Marcuse’s “The Affirmative Character of Culture” but I can’t find a link to the text online. Buy it here on Amazon: Link.

Here’s “The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics” on Amazon.

Night night. Happy reading.

This was written by James Pomerantz. Posted on Saturday, September 26, 2009, at 11:10 pm. Filed under 2009 Fall Courses, Homework, Readings. Bookmark the permalink. Follow comments here with the RSS feed. Post a comment or leave a trackback.

2 Comments

  1. Raul wrote:

    Thanks James, I really appreciate this huge effort you are doing. I’ll try to read all Leslie’s suggestions, so please keep posting…
    Boqueria soon!

    Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:55 am | Permalink
  2. amy t schubert wrote:

    I really like Walter Benjamin … he has a piece on collecting that is fascinating.

    I love cultural studies in general – thanks for the links!

    Sunday, September 27, 2009 at 12:18 pm | Permalink

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