The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its custom…

Theodor Adorno
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.46, Univ of California Press
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men. ✨ Theodor W. Adorno, E. F. N. Jephcott (2005). Minima Moralia: Reflections on a Damaged Life, p.40, Verso
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The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them. ✨ Theodor Adorno, Richard Leppert, Susan H. Gillespie (2002). Essays on Music, p.46, Univ of California Press

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