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Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem.
"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno
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Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem.
"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno
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Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem.
"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno
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Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem.
"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno
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Sometimes that is what we have to do, Sam. Those of us who still feel bad about the falsehoods we are forced to perform are ok. It's those who don't feel the remorse anymore who are the problem.
"There is no right life in the false one." TW Adorno
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"The Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_and_Elsewhere
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.
I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.
Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.
Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.
These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.
Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....
#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.
I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.
Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.
Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.
These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.
Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....
#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.
I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.
Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.
Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.
These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.
Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....
#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.
I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.
Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.
Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.
These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.
Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....
#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory
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🧵 1/5
A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some Adorno before, so I went back to "Minima Moralia" more recently and read the collected essays and aphorisms from cover to cover.
I am aware, of course, that were Adorno to be alive today, he would point to my beliefs and preoccupations as evidence of the "damaged life" he describes and deplores. For critical theorists, my reformist social democracy, my belief in the possibility of a science of society, and the joy I take in Richard Strauss, Jean Sibelius, and Kpop are all signs of a pitiful enslavement to a naive positivism and the kitsch culture of capitalism.
Nevertheless, I found "Minima Moralia" rewarding, if at times frustrating, reading. I read the Verso edition; I have heard criticisms of older translations of Adorno, of which this is one, it having been first published in 1974 by New Left Books. In this thread, I'm going to link to a newer translation by Dennis Redmond.
Overall, Adorno puts forward a number of arguments about culture, intellectuals, and commodification under capitalism. For many years from the mid seventies onwards, he was regarded a grouchy elitist whose high modernist cultural critique could, in the light of Birmingham School cultural studies, be seen as at best guilty of a simplistic, uninformed by Gramsci, and demobilisingly moralistic approach to popular culture and at worst of a marxisant high toryism.
These criticisms are not without foundation. Reading "Minima Moralia" can be at times the trying experience of being subjected to page upon page of western marxist curmudgeonry.
Yet some of thoughts on the culture of capitalism struck me as meriting my renewed consideration, even though....
#TheodorAdorno #MinimaMoralia #CriticalTheory #CulturalCritique #CulturalStudies #Marxism #FrankfurtSchool #Adorno #Philosophy #SocialTheory
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@wackJackle Aus meinem Twitter-Archiv.
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951BTW: Hab ich als Motto für meinen Sword-&-Sorcery-Horror-Comedy-Roman reserviert, wenn ich den je schreibe.
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@wackJackle Aus meinem Twitter-Archiv.
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951BTW: Hab ich als Motto für meinen Sword-&-Sorcery-Horror-Comedy-Roman reserviert, wenn ich den je schreibe.
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@wackJackle Aus meinem Twitter-Archiv.
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951BTW: Hab ich als Motto für meinen Sword-&-Sorcery-Horror-Comedy-Roman reserviert, wenn ich den je schreibe.
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@wackJackle Aus meinem Twitter-Archiv.
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951BTW: Hab ich als Motto für meinen Sword-&-Sorcery-Horror-Comedy-Roman reserviert, wenn ich den je schreibe.
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@wackJackle Aus meinem Twitter-Archiv.
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951BTW: Hab ich als Motto für meinen Sword-&-Sorcery-Horror-Comedy-Roman reserviert, wenn ich den je schreibe.
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@aufsmaulsuppe Als Adorno-Horkheimer- und Feyerabend-Duerr-Fan finde ich ja ›Rationalität‹ hochproblematisch. Unter anderem dessen Reduktionismus und Spiritualitätsfeinlichkeit hat uns ja den ganzen Scheiß eingebrockt.
Beware the Claws of Negative Dialektik™!
»Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.«
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951
Mein Motto für Phantastik-Roman.
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@aufsmaulsuppe Als Adorno-Horkheimer- und Feyerabend-Duerr-Fan finde ich ja ›Rationalität‹ hochproblematisch. Dessen Reduktionismus und Spiritualitätsfeinlichkeit hat uns ja den ganzen Scheiß eingebrockt.
Beware the Claws of Negative Dialektik™!
Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951
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@aufsmaulsuppe Als Adorno-Horkheimer- und Feyerabend-Duerr-Fan finde ich ja ›Rationalität‹ hochproblematisch. Dessen Reduktionismus und Spiritualitätsfeinlichkeit hat uns ja den ganzen Scheiß eingebrockt.
Beware the Claws of Negative Dialektik™!
Grell bestrahlt das Grauen des Endes den Trug des Ursprungs.
—Theodor ›Old Hunter of the Negative Dialectors‹ #Adorno, »#MinimaMoralia«, 1951
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"Those who won't take advice can't be helped, the bourgeois used to say, with advice that costs nothing, to buy themselves out of the obligation to help, and at the same time to gain power over the helpless person who had turned to them."
fuel for my growing anti-psychology sentiment