Why the Frankfurt School Today? Sara Danièle Bélanger-Michaud

Why the Frankfurt School Today? Sara Danièle Bélanger-MichaudThe book, Why the Frankfurt School Today? Estrangement from Nature in the Age of Digital Capitalism, serves as an introduction to key thinkers of the Frankfurt School as they relate to issues around our estrangement from nature and digital media. The works of Adorno, Marcuse and Benjamin will be assessed in their possible usefulness to the challenges of 21st Century M edia and its empowering and controlling effects.

It explores path-breaking transcultural art practices from the 1920s to the 1960s in the framework of decolonial movements and transcultural thinking

Adds the perspectives of psychologists in four completely new chapters

Film studies

and international relations reveal the diverse narratives

including feminist epistemology

this book demonstrates that similar issues continue to shape the contemporary cultural landscape of Germany

a private sacrificial rite practiced routinely by the afflicted devotees

each one categorized according to ECA verb patterns

the use of coercive force within and between societies

situating the Americas in dialogue with transregional aesthetic and cultural networks

by analysing the effects of fierce family loyalty

As a cultural