Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology

Critical Perspectives on Television from the Frankfurt School to Postmodernism

Douglas Kellner

June 18, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Douglas Kellner Paul Lazarsfeld (1942), one of the originators of modern communications studies, distinguished b... Read More...

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Engaging Media Spectacle

Douglas Kellner

April 16, 2015

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Doug Kellner In the contemporary era, media spectacle organizes and mobilizes economic life, political conflict,... Read More...

Doug Kellner | Youth, Media Spectacle and New Media

Douglas Kellner

April 6, 2015

Douglas Kellner is one of the most important third generation critical theorists in the tradition of the Frankfurt Institute for Social Research. Kellner was an early theorist of the field of critical media... Read More...

Martin Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism: Philosophy of Technology and the Media in the Light of the Black Notebooks

Christian Fuchs

March 2, 2015

“Heidegger is the petty bourgeois of German philosophy, the man who has placed on German philosophy his kitschy night-cap When I see that even super-intelligent people have been taken in by Heidegger, I fee... Read More...

OccupyMedia! Social Media in Times of Capitalist Crisis and Political Change

Christian Fuchs

February 6, 2015

Key Series: Occupy, Emancipatory Politics, Radical Democracy In this video Christian Fuchs discusses his book, OccupyMedia! Social Media in Times of Capitalist Crisis and Political Change. The talk was g... Read More...

Digital Marx: Toward a Political Economy of Distributed Media

Heathwood

January 2, 2015

By Andreas Wittel Abstract This is the claim: In the age of mass media the political economy of media has engaged with Marxist concepts in a rather limited way. In the age of digital media Marxist theory ... Read More...

Compliance Fiction: Adorno and Horkheimer’s ‘Culture Industry’ Thesis in a Multimedia Age

Heathwood

November 7, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Sam Caslin In today's multimedia, virtual world, the notion of the culture industry is perhaps more pertinent than... Read More...

T.W. Adorno and the Dialectics of Mass Culture

Douglas Kellner

September 3, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Doug Kellner While T.W. Adorno is a lively figure on the contemporary cultural scene, his thought in many ways cut... Read More...

Demanding and Defining Alternative Media

Marisol Sandoval

August 29, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology Review of Christian Fuchs (2014) OccupyMedia! The Occupy Movement and Social Media in Crisis Capitalism. Winchester an... Read More...

Report: US Surveillance Harming Journalism, Law, Democracy | Human Rights Watch

Heathwood

August 18, 2014

The following report was published by Human Rights Watch. It was posted as part of Heathwood's Global Voice project. "Large-scale US surveillance is seriously hampering US-based journalists and lawyers in th... Read More...

Why Recent Global Uprisings Are Led by Youth

Heathwood

August 4, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Gayle Kimball Abstract Interviews and surveys with 4184 young people and youth activists from 88 counties, r... Read More...

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Sensation at Odds with Itself: Adorno on Aesthetic Negativity

Chris Conti

July 4, 2014

Key Series: Art and Aesthetics If the idea of objectivity remains the canon of all convincing aesthetic reflection, then its locus is the contradiction of each and every aesthetic object in itself, as we... Read More...

Culture, Resistance, and the Contradictions of Capitalism

Ryan Moore

June 12, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Ryan Moore The past half-century has witnessed the proliferation of rebellious cultural practices and subversive... Read More...

The Stars Down to Earth: And Other Essays on the Irrational in Culture – Theodor W. Adorno

Heathwood

June 3, 2014

Key Series: Culture, Aesthetics and Critique (If the PDF doesn’t display properly, please refresh the page or click here) ... Read More...

Alternative Media – Participation and Critique

Marisol Sandoval

May 30, 2014

Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Marisol Sandoval Le Monde Diplomatique is a monthly newspaper for international politics, which aims to “stand out in an inc... Read More...

Digital Reproducibility and the Culture Industry: Popular Music and the Adorno-Benjamin Debate

Ryan Moore

May 28, 2014

Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By Ryan Moore Introduction The correspondence between Theodor W. Adorno and Walter Benjamin – two central figures in the dev... Read More...

A Note on Habermas

Richard Gunn and Adrian Wilding

May 20, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory, the Crisis of Social Philosophy, Advancing the Frankfurt School By Richard Gunn and Adrian Wilding In a previous piece on the Heathwood website, we argued that Frankfurt Schoo... Read More...

Christian Fuchs | Social Media, the Internet, Freedom and the Public Sphere in Times of Crisis

Christian Fuchs

May 5, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theoru of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology Christian Fuchs delivering a lecture at the 'Freedom of Information Under Pressure Conference (2014): Control -- Cri... Read More...

Power, Capital & the Rise of the Mass Surveillance State: On the Absence of Democracy, Ethics, Disenchantment & Critical Theory

R.C. Smith

April 24, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology By R.C. Smith Introduction In a previous paper on ‘why mass surveillance is a direct product of modern society’,... Read More...

Culture Industry Reconsidered – Theodor W. Adorno

Heathwood

March 11, 2014

Key Series: Critical Theory of Information, Communication, Media, Culture and Technology "The importance of the culture industry in the spiritual constitution of the masses is no dispensation for reflection on... Read More...