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Adorno on why your favorite sitcom does the laughing for you after a hard day of work:
“Affirmative culture provides an escape from reality, which requires little effort or concentration from workers demoralized and dulled by an alienating work process…Adorno describes techniques…of ‘response mechanisms’ such as canned laughter, which are designed to guarantee the correct response from the audience.”
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“Affirmative culture provides an escape from reality, which requires little effort or concentration from workers demoralized and dulled by an alienating work process…Adorno describes techniques…of ‘response mechanisms’ such as canned laughter, which are designed to guarantee the correct response from the audience.”






