Seeing Through Adorno’s Prism

Abstract

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Theoretical approaches to identifying creative industries

“…The remaining 6 articles belong to the following scientific areas: "Business, Management and Accounting" -4; "Economics, Econometrics and Finance" -2. The revealed distribution confirms that a comprehensive study of creative industries in the scientific field is interdisciplinary in nature (which is reflected in the literature on urban planning, geography, economics, and cultural studies) and leads to the borrowing of definitions without clear explanations (Chapain & Sagot-Duvauroux, 2021;Durey, 2021). This inconsistency is most clearly manifested when conducting regional studies (Сorrea-Quezada et al, 2018;Dunska & Marcinkevica, 2017;Agustina et al, 2020).…”

“…Creative economy is a relatively new concept that entered the scientific and political discourse at the end of the 20 th century. However, despite its novelty, this phenomenon is of great interest to scientists, experts, economists, politicians, and representatives of civil society (Durey, 2021).…”

‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

“…Negative dialectics is intended as a means to search for the possibility of non-capitalist knowledge, an attempt of ‘seeing through the mere appearances of bourgeois reality’ (Buck-Morss, 1977: 63). Based on the assumption of the totality of the capitalist mode of production a new form of thinking has taken shape, which Adorno (Durey, 2021: 128) calls ‘identity thinking’. Identity thinking refers to the compulsion that every object must be integrated in a system of equivalences, thus ‘forcing our understanding of the world into clearly determinate categories’ (Durey, 2021: 129) and reproducing the fundamental thought forms of capitalism (Jamesson, 1990: 20).…”

“…Based on the assumption of the totality of the capitalist mode of production a new form of thinking has taken shape, which Adorno (Durey, 2021: 128) calls ‘identity thinking’. Identity thinking refers to the compulsion that every object must be integrated in a system of equivalences, thus ‘forcing our understanding of the world into clearly determinate categories’ (Durey, 2021: 129) and reproducing the fundamental thought forms of capitalism (Jamesson, 1990: 20). For Adorno, this comes at a high price: ‘[t]he practical orders of life while purporting to benefit man, serve in a profit economy to stunt human qualities, and the further they spread the more they sever everything tender’ (Adorno, 2020: 44).…”

“…Adorno’s negative dialectics can be employed as one approach to theoretically consider how capitalist thought forms and their associated social relations might be challenged through the connection of memory and place. Therefore, this article has surveyed basic aspects of Adorno’s theory: society is understood as totality, where everything is subjected to the capitalist principles of barter and exchange (Durey, 2021: 130–131; Kuge, 2021: 102). This results in specific subject and object configurations, both marked by the application of capitalist principles that abstract from particular and singular moments in favour of systems and hierarchies (Jamesson, 1990: 20).…”