Adorno and Foucault

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Last quarter you examined Smith’s claim that the spread of commercial society (i.e. capitalism) would enable individuals the freedom to follow their self-interest, understood in terms of both their life activity and their access to the world of goods and services. Foucault and Adorno both call into question the assumption that there is a pre-existent individual who exists always and everywhere, and who could be ‘freed’ to pursue their self-interest in
an open society. Instead, both Foucault and Adorno claim that our modern notion of
individuality is a product of practices which lead us to dominate ourselves behind our own backs.
Begin by describing what Foucault and Adorno believe are the practices that lead to
self-domination in the modern world, i.e. power-knowledge and capitalist commodity
production respectively, and then discuss how they believe modern culture serves to
maintain this self-domination.

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Times New Roman, Normal Margins, 12 point font, Double spacing.

Preferred source editions:

Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New York: Vintage Books, 1995
[1977].

On The Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening by Theodor W. Adorno
I”ve attached the pdf for Adorno.
Here”s a link for the source as well:
https://yaleunion.org/secret/Adorno-On-the-Fetish-Character-in-Music-and-the-Regression-of-Listening.pdf