Ideology and Utopia" - Karl Mannheim
Particular v. total ideology
False consciousness
Ideological v. utopian thought
"The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" - Horkheimer & Adorno
Mass culture and culture industry
Cultural products and consumer desires
Role of pleasure, meaning of “art,” meaning of “freedom”
"One-Dimensional Man" - Herbert Marcuse
Capitalism and “false needs”
Sublimation, desublimation
Cycle of stupefaction, Happy consciousness, meaning of “freedom”
The Merchants of Cool – Frontline documentary