The Paradox of Culture: Critical Theory on Harper and the CBC

… culture suffers damage when it is planned and administrated; when it is left to itself, however, everything cultural threatens not only to lose its possibility of effect, but its very existence as well.

Theodore Adorno, The Culture Industry, 1972[1]

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[1] Theodore W. Adorno, The Culture Industry: Selected essays on mass culture, ed. J.M. Bernstein (New York: Routledge, 2010), p. 108. Adorno and Max Horkheimer first used the term “culture industry” in their book Dialectic of Enlightenment, published in Amsterdam in 1947. (Adorno, Culture Industry, p. 98).