Frankfurt counterexamples

Not many people can say that they’re adopted; but a small percentage is, and I’m lucky enough to be one of them. My mom and dad had split before I was born, leaving my mom to run to my divorced grandpa for help when she was expecting me. He took care of us, but despite these things, my mom never compared to the parent that my grandpa was for me. She struggled with drugs and alcohol, often taking her anger out on me physically when no one was around. After drifting in and out of my life for those…

share in their ideas and feelings, often times forming a subculture. The Frankfurt and Birmingham schools of thought analyze popular culture in an attempt to examine the formation and the purpose of subcultures in society. Through personal observation and interviews I was able to analyze the Gothic subculture. In my research I focus on the styles, the beliefs, and rules of the Gothic subculture while applying the Frankfurt school and Hebdige’s theories on subculture to determine whether they…

The title of this article is “Contraindications in a Hip-Hop World: An Ethnographic Study of Black Women Hip-Hop Fans in Washington, DC.,” written by Tia L. Smith-Cooper. This article was published with UMI Microform in June 2002. In this article, Tia L. Smith-Cooper is scrutinizing the current (in 2002) problem of male rappers objectifying females and women still being content with this fact and continuing to be hip-hop fans. Not only does she attack male rappers, she also attacks female…

Herbert Marcuse published An Essay on Liberation in 1969. Marcuse was a German-born Jewish philosopher and political theorist who fled Germany during World War II and relocated to America. Marcuse was one of the primary theorists of the Frankfurt School and is credited as being one of the founders of Critical Theory. In his essay Marcuse use critical theory to critique the capitalistic society in America and global dominion. The essay is portioned into four main areas which are A Biological…

Ideas and inspirations for kitchens Can you afford to design a stylish home without taking due care to design an equally sumptuous kitchen? Certainly not! Every home needs to have a comfortably designed kitchen which may also double up as a social hub in case you are following an open floor plan. Designing a functional yet chic space may turn out to be slightly trickier than you would like to think. But our ideas and inspirations about modern kitchens, shared regularly through the magazine…

Question 1: In The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as mass deception, Adorno and Horkheimer are observing the culture industry. The culture industry is the entire system of production and circulation that establishes mass, mainstream, and popular culture. In this essay, the authors illustrate more precisely the relationship between culture industry and reality by explaining that “[r]eal life is becoming indistinguishable from the movies. The sound film, […], leaves no room for imagination or…

The culture industry itself is self-named, an industry primarily based on values of an assembly line. The culture industry continues the governing of human beings under the appearance of freedom, as the goal of the culture industry is to reproduce the values of capitalist culture by producing false pleasures. Similar to the movie, Bob Roberts, is a deceitful businessman but like many others, he projects an image of himself as being fair, reasonable and righteous. In the movie residents believe…

In 2001, Michael Haneke directed a film called, The Piano Teacher. Haneke’s attitude, as conveyed to the spectator, is not to rail against pornography, per se, but to rail against its impact as generated by a capitalist patriarchy. This stems from a similar modality introduced by Linda Williams1 in which she “...moves beyond the impasse of the anti-porn/anti-censorship debate to analyze what hard-core film pornography is and does.” (Slade 656). Haneke’s method portrays a patriarchal approach…

Almost twenty years after the Nazis defeat, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials began. This was the second trial for Nazi soldiers stationed in Auschwitz. Over the course of two years, twenty-two defendants were tried for their actions during the Holocaust. These trials took place in Germany and were open to the public. This was somewhat of a way to bring the details of the Holocaust to the public. In fact, there were three hundred and sixty witnesses called to the stand over the course of the trial.…

with regular routes between Dortmund and other European cities. Unfortunately, there are no direct flights available from Canada to Dortmund. To get there, you'll have to stop in a major international airport like the ones found in Munich (MUC), Frankfurt (FRA), or London (LTN). Germany is a part of the Schengen area, which means that Canadians can visit visa-free for up to 90 days at a time. You can also travel freely within Schengen area countries during your 90-stay trip! To avoid any…