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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

Perhaps such cartoons are emblematic of the Hegelian master–slave dialectic, and suggest the instability of the existing power relations rather than confirming them.

Deracinated, lonely, struggling to make his philosophy understood in a language that he was just mastering, Adorno took succour

Deracinated, lonely, struggling to make his philosophy understood in a language that he was just mastering, Adorno took succour