Adorno: Semi-Formation as Cultural Reconstruction of Society :: Culture Cultural Papers

Adorno Semi-Formation as Cultural Reconstruction of Society hook The apprehension of the last industry in its totality, as it is presented in Adornos dialectical of erudition, makes it necessary to turn to his Theory of Self-Formation, where the heathen domain of the constellation of fraternity has an explicit plastic dimension. The cultural formation, the German Bildung, expresses such a prism. It is not a national peculiarity, only it translates in the experience of delay of the German bourgeois rules of order as the formative dimension of assimilation, generally underground in the social constitution, facilitating the basis of immanent criticism. In the State interventionist society that follows the liberal order, with the usage of the totalitarian State and the society of mass consumption, the fur-bearing process does not tolerate the formative experience of autonomy there is a social reconstruction of culture as culture industry, which turns turn up to be a politi cal concept. Here there is not absence, but an eclipse of formation. It is semi-formation only integration, without autonomy. When universality, instead of residing in ideals formed within culture formation, resides on universalization of given cultural goods, the mercantile ideals only integrate the masse shots. The culture industry is the chore of what appears as the cultural construction of society, in wrong of the integrating semi-formation. The disintegration of the working class and its reconstruction en masse are a result of the formation process of which the culture industry is a part. Formation is concealed because the social construction is confounded with the cultural construction society is itself ideology. The social organization obstructs the experience of the social formative labor in the integration. Society appears to be an extra-productive socialization. In the Dialectic of Enlightenment (1985), written with Horkheimer, Adorno analyzed the social formation of a St ate interventionist order, that followed the prior liberal one. To the authors, then emigrated to the USA, the north-American experience of mass culture complemented the experience of cultural manipulation of the totalitarian fascism, conditioning the famous conception of culture industry. The manipulation of the masses by the totalitarian fascist State in its expire as the main economic agent would be found once again in the consumers society. Such society, apparently did not need the support of a legitimating ideology. By representing the fulfillment of ideals as consumers goods the society itself becomes ideology. The rise of the living standards of the low-level classes, materially reprehensible and socially regretful, reflects itself on the hypocrite expansion of the spirit.