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is theory that is 'critical' in that it seeks human emancipation.

a 'critical' theory may be distinguished from a 'traditional' theory according to a specific practical purpose: a theory is critical to the extent that it seeks human emancipation, 'to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them' (Horkheimer 1982, 244).

is the films, magazines and radio which crank out sterilized, watered down, innocuous media products, palatable for mass consumption with the aim of making everything uniform.

that vehicle of society that regulates and homogenizes all things, including media such as films, magazines and radio. In Horkheimer and Adorno's view these mediums, ' make up a system which is uniform as a whole and in every part.' (72). Like a sophisticated machine on an automotive assembly line that consistently cranks out streamlined, identical parts, such as cylinders, the 'culture industry' cranks out sterilized, watered down, innocuous media products, palatable for mass consumption. (net)

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