by Mojtaba Salem After becoming familiar with the theoretical framework of the culture industry, it is productive to look at the practical implications of the mechanical production of ideas on the world. News agencies are the tools with which a new truth in favor of capitalism must be constructed. The idea is that what citizens perceived as  reality becomes more important than the objective reality itself. Such a [...]

by Mojtaba Salem This is the first of a four-piece analysis, which tries to look at the culture industry that is argued to be the product of capitalist mode of production, from two different windows: 1) the mass media 2) entertainment industry. My goal here is to offer a critical analysis of the complementary roles [...]