GENERAL STRIKE AND THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY: COMMUNICATION AND POWER IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

Abstract

In this work I intend to account for the incompatibility that raise, as interpretive keys for contemporary society, the notion of general strike in the work of Benjamin and Sorel, and the notion of cultural industry in the Dialectics of Enlightenment of Adorno and Horkheimer. To achieve this objective, I) I will analyze the characterizations made by the authors in relation to their respective concepts. II) I will contrast the formative character of the general strike against the productive loop that the cultural industry implies. III) Finally, I will point out the aporetic nature that both notions arouse in the face of the various forms of communication and cultural diffusion in political conflicts that they entail. In this way, I intend to be able to point out the possible scope and/or validity of both models of interpretation for contemporary society.