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Key Concepts of Cultural Critique

1. The passage discusses key concepts from critical theory, including ideas from the Frankfurt School thinkers Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Marcuse. 2. Adorno believed that characters and actions in mass culture works are predictable, and that popular music operates mechanically as a form of "social cement." 3. Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" analyzed how meaning is produced at the moment of cultural consumption, not by the artist.

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Key Concepts of Cultural Critique

1. The passage discusses key concepts from critical theory, including ideas from the Frankfurt School thinkers Adorno, Horkheimer, Benjamin, and Marcuse. 2. Adorno believed that characters and actions in mass culture works are predictable, and that popular music operates mechanically as a form of "social cement." 3. Benjamin's essay "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" analyzed how meaning is produced at the moment of cultural consumption, not by the artist.

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Test 1b 1. We make our own history, () under very definite assumptions and conditions.

Amon these, the economic ones are u!timate!y decisive.", said a) #ar$ b) %n e!s c) &enin '. Te$ts and practices were( a) never the )primary force* in history b) active a ents in

historica! chan e c) servants of socia! stabi!ity +. ,n 1-++, fo!!owin the comin to power of .it!er, the members of the /rankfurt 0choo! moved to( a) /rance b) 10A c) 2ortu a! 3. )cu!ture industruy* was a term coined by( a) .orkheimer and Adorno b) Adorno and 4en5amin c) &owentha! and #arcuse 6. Adorno be!ieved that the characters and their actions in a piece of mass cu!ture are( a) difficu!t to discern b) authentic c) predictab!e 7. ),t is a ood way of !ife (capita!ist society) and as a ood way of !ife, it mi!itates a ainst 8ua!itative chan e*, said( a) Adorno b) #arcuse c) 4en5amin 7. ,n searchin for profits and cu!tura! homo eneity, cu!ture industry deprives authentic cu!ture of its( a) po!itica! b) aesthetic c) critica! function 9. ,n the 1-7:s a bedsit with a poster of ;he <uevara was not si n of commitment to( a) the !atest fashion b) revo!utionary po!itics c) bour eois conformity
-. Accordin to Adorno, popu!ar music is not( a) mechanica! b) operatin !ike a )socia! cement c) or anic

1:. )The work of art in the a e of mechanica! reproduction* is an essay written by( a) Adorno b) #arcuse c) 4en5amin
11. One Dimensional Man was written by( a) 4en5amin b) #arcuse c) Adorno

1'. 4en5amin su ests that meanin is produced( a) in the modes of production b) in the mind of the artist c) at the moment of consumption
1+. &ouis A!thusser*s most si nificant contribution was his attempt to theori=e the concept of( a) base b) ideo!o y c) superstructure 13. ,deo!o y for A!thusser is not( a) a system of representations b) a c!osed system c) a so!ution for a!! the prob!ems one can pose 16. ,n interpretin Taxi Driver the centra! and structurin absence is( a) the >orean War b) the ?ietnam War c) the ,rak War 17. What car advertisements, as a response to the rowin body of ne ative pub!icity attracted by car ownership, do show is( a) po!!ution b) vehic!es iso!ated in nature c) road con estion 1@. A Theory of Literary Production was written by( a) &ouis A!thusser b) 2ierre #acherey c) Aac8ues Berrida 19. ,n A Theory of Literary Production the author re5ects what he ca!!s( a) the intentiona! fa!!acy b) the interpretive fa!!acy c) the affective fa!!acy 1-. To produce a new know!ed e of the te$t is not e$p!ainin the ideo!o ica! necessity of its( a) si!ences b) structurin incomp!eteness c) editin ': 4etween the prob!em posed by a te$t and the reso!ution offered there is a!ways a rupture, but its e$aminin can*t !ead us to the te$t*s re!ationship with( a) ideo!o y b) history c) pub!ication '1. The ideo!o ica! pro5ect of Au!es ?erne*s work isn*t sta in the( a) adventures of /rench imperia!ism b) contradictions between the myth and rea!ity of imperia!ism c) art of !ivin '' , don*t reco ni=e myse!f in it because ,*m its addressee, , become its addressee the moment , reco ni=e myse!f in it", says about advertisin ( a) A!thusser b) #acherey c) 0!avo5 Ci=ek

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