Lazer e consumo: uma análise a partir da indústria cultural

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss there lationship between leisure and consumption from the culture industry, seeking to high light the protagonism of the subjects in the dialectic that is established between the se two spheres.For that, we used authors who deal with leisure, consumption and the culture industry, in order to build an essay that was able to instigate some questions and encourage debate on the topic. Notably, the concept of the Culture Industry had a major impact on leisure theorists in Brazil, making the association between leisure and consumption widely understood through a bias of alienation and passivity. Some examples are mobilized in order to propose a paradigm break by shifting the focus of the analysis to the subjective character of the experience. It is concluded that the subjects' appropriation of cultural products ultimately determines their degree of abstraction.