For Habermas, the inherent aim or telos of language was to reach understanding and bring about consensus
how the culture industry could be aberrantly, even rebelliously, decoded by its mass consumers and that popular sub-cultures might subvert the culture industry in a form of immanent critique
on Adorno's refusal to see popular culture as anything other than an affirmation (as opposed to a resistance)
Perhaps such cartoons are emblematic of the Hegelian master–slave dialectic, and suggest the instability of the existing power relations rather than confirming them.
on Tom & Jerry and Roadrunner lol
Deracinated, lonely, struggling to make his philosophy understood in a language that he was just mastering, Adorno took succour
