'The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture'

The New Yorker ran this really great column on Benjamin and Adorno and the Frankfurt School of critical theory, and even though it's sort of tangential to the class, some of the ideas discussed in the piece have already appeared in/influenced the thinking of the 1960s German New Left.

Link: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers

[I don't know if this is a legitimate use of the course blog, but I'm doing it anyway.]

- Ben Curttright