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Habermas developed his theory of communication based on and by going beyond Adorno. For the third task, the discussion of the dialectics of knowledge, section 3 especially refers to Adorno’s (1963) book Hegel: Three Studies and his essays On Subject and Object (Adorno 1998, 245–258) and Ideology (Adorno 1954).\n\nThe reader may ask: why does the discussion of the dialectics of knowledge in this chapter not engage profoundly with Adorno’s (1973b, 2008) Negative Dialectics? Adorno’s three Hegel studies are explicitly devoted to epistemology. The first study (Aspects of Hegel’s Philosophy) discusses the relationship of subject and object in Hegel’s philosophy and the role of reason and (ir)rationality in this relation. The second study (The Experiential Content of Hegel’s Philosophy) analyses how Hegel saw experience and knowledge. The third one (Skoteinos, or How to Read Hegel) focuses on the dialectical character of Hegel’s writing and how to read Hegel, i.e. how the reader of Hegel creates knowledge about Hegel. Negative Dialectics is an interesting work in itself, but Hegel: Three Studies is the work that more directly engages with Hegel’s dialectical epistemology.\n\n3.2. Adorno – A Media Pessimist?\n\n3.2.1. Adorno and Cultural Studies\n\nIn media and cultural studies, we often find short standard dismissals of Adorno in a few paragraphs that lack an in-depth engagement with his works. Here are some example assessments that I collected from cultural studies books and essays by searching for the keyword ‘Adorno’ in a sample of works.\n\n• The ‘Frankfurt School have no room in their scenario for resistant or evasive practices. […] this produces a left-wing elitism that implicitly or explicitly devalues the people with whom it is politically aligned: an uncomfortable position, to say the least. One result of this is the way it has blinkered Marxist theory to the notion of popular pleasure, and particularly to the idea that popular pleasure must necessarily contain traces of resistance: there is no popular pleasure in being ideologically duped or hegemonically victimized. The power of ideology or hegemony simply is not that great’ (Fiske 1989, 183).\n\n• ‘Adorno condemns mass or popular music as a standardized industrial product (commodity) which determines an infantilized (fetishized) mode of consumption. […] Adorno collapses the distinction between production and consumption, making the consumer’s alienation the same as the laborer’s. […] For critical theory, the cultural object is pure exchange value, with no use value whatsoever’ (Grossberg 1997, 108–109).\n\n• ‘I blame Adorno. I mean, you read his work on ‘The culture industry’, and it’s so obvious that he doesn’t know anything about popular culture, he’s never consumed any popular culture – in fact, it seems like he’s never even spoken to anybody who’s ever consumed any popular culture!’ (Jenkins 2006).\n\n76\n\nCritical Theory of Communication","previous_page":null,"next_page":77}