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“The unconditional realism of civilized humanity, which culminates in fascism, is a special case of paranoid delusion, which depopulates nature and finally nations themselves.”
Horkheimer & Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Horkheimer & Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
May 28, 2025 at 4:24 AM
“The unconditional realism of civilized humanity, which culminates in fascism, is a special case of paranoid delusion, which depopulates nature and finally nations themselves.”
Horkheimer & Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
Horkheimer & Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment
“The construction of aesthetic or pseudo-aesthetic effects from the ruins of an annihilated world is a process of depriving literature of its right to exist.”
~WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction
~WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction
May 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
“The construction of aesthetic or pseudo-aesthetic effects from the ruins of an annihilated world is a process of depriving literature of its right to exist.”
~WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction
~WG Sebald, On the Natural History of Destruction
“In the Wagnerian period, the elite listener was eager to follow the most daring musical exploits. Today the corresponding group is the firmest bulwark against musical progress and feels happy only if it is fed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony again and again.” -Adorno, 1945
May 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“In the Wagnerian period, the elite listener was eager to follow the most daring musical exploits. Today the corresponding group is the firmest bulwark against musical progress and feels happy only if it is fed Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony again and again.” -Adorno, 1945
Gillian Rose in 1979, summarizing Adorno on music:
“The loss of unity in the music, and the shift of meaning from the totality to the individual moments, produces an atomized mode of listening (apprehension) or quotation listening, as easily memorizable elements are loosened from the whole.”
“The loss of unity in the music, and the shift of meaning from the totality to the individual moments, produces an atomized mode of listening (apprehension) or quotation listening, as easily memorizable elements are loosened from the whole.”
May 13, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Gillian Rose in 1979, summarizing Adorno on music:
“The loss of unity in the music, and the shift of meaning from the totality to the individual moments, produces an atomized mode of listening (apprehension) or quotation listening, as easily memorizable elements are loosened from the whole.”
“The loss of unity in the music, and the shift of meaning from the totality to the individual moments, produces an atomized mode of listening (apprehension) or quotation listening, as easily memorizable elements are loosened from the whole.”