4 The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications

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1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Rethinking the Frankfurt School 1
5. The Frankfurt School Today
6. The Theoretical Hesitation: Benjamin’s Sociological Predecessor 11
7. The Frankfurt School and British Cultural Studies: The Missed Articulation 31
8. The Limits of Culture: The Frankfurt School and/for Cultural Studies 59
9. The Frankfurt School and the Political Economy of Communications 81
10. Adorno
11. Of Mice and Mimesis: Reading Spiegelman with Adorno 97
12. Why Do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment 111
13. On Doing the Adorno Two-Step 123
14. Maxima Immoralia?: Speed and Slowness in Adorno 131
15. Benjamin, Horkheimer, Marcuse, Habermas
16. The Negative History of the Moment of Possibility: Walter Benjamin and the Coming of the Messiah 145
17. The Frankfurt School and the Domination of Nature: New Grounds for Radical Environmentalism 153
18. One-Dimensional Symptoms: What Marcuse Offers a Critical Theory of Law 169
19. The Öffentlichkeit of Jürgen Habermas: The Frankfurt School’s Most Influential Concept? 187
20. The Frankfurt School 207
21. Contributors 223
22. Index 225