Seeing Through Adorno’s Prism

The cultural and creative industries have become a vibrant field of research in recent years. Increasing their contributions to GDP encompassing growing share the labour market, common feature many areas policy research, and, especially urban contexts, associated with significant spatial transformations. While origin concept ‘culture industry’ work Adorno Horkheimer is often acknowledged, contemporary scholarship has typically paid very little attention theoretical - specifically Adorno’s critique ‘identity thinking’ importance contradiction preponderance object which formed basis his negative dialectics underpinned arguments concerning commodification standardization products. Consequently, important insights are frequently overlooked accounts industries. This article situates on culture industry within dialectics, by applying ‘logic disintegration’ or ‘prism’ ‘creative city’, makes an argument for how ideas continue provide into geographies postindustrial society.