«Culture today is infecting
everything with sameness. Film, radio, and magazines form a system. Each branch
of culture is unanimous within itself and all are unanimous together. (…) All
mass culture under monopoly is identical, and the contours of its skeleton, the
conceptual armature fabricated by monopoly, are beginning to stand out. (…)
Films and radio no longer need to present themselves as art. The truth that
they are nothing but business is used as an ideology to legitimize the trash
they intentionally produce».
(Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, first published in1944, pp. 94-95 SUP edition 2002)
