Alexander Kluge y Theodor W. Adorno: Industria cultural, cine y contraesferas públicas

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore the complex convergence between the trajectories of Alexander Kluge and Theodor W. Adorno. In the first place, we develop some historical milestones that allow us to describe the context of this closeness. Then, taking as a starting point the key problem of the image referential –which for Kluge and Adorno is the main concern in the reflections on a particular aesthetics of film-, we will address four issues that let us rethink the relationship of the two of them: the idea of montage, narrative and image, subjective experience and the matter of reception.