/lit/ - Literature

>>4723319
Don't be so degenerate, anon.

>Be as degenerate and perverse as fucking possible

If I critiqued your culture, would you die?

Every music theorist worth his salt has dismissed him. Even Schoenberg, whom Adorno worshipped, dismissed him outright.

Why is he still taken seriously in literature and philosophy departments?

>>3766149

I'm suggesting that a movement doesn't have to seize it, it may be possible for there not to be a 'revolution' at all, if you look at the increase in empathy within the capitalist world over the recent years and more importantly the gradual trend of moving towards more socialist societies, despite this being counter-productive to the ruling classes ideological system, it may be possible the revolution ends up being nothing more than an almost 'natural' evolution in thought. I don't think it's too great a leap to think that educational policies that favour socialism rather than individualistic aspirations could become a more prominent trend over the coming decades.

Anyone here read Adorno or other critical theorist/Marxist Frankfurt School authors?

I'm interested on what your opinions are. I'm starting to get into Frankfurt School after reading a lot of the Situationist International.

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/adorno/1944/culture-industry.htm

>In the unrestrained sex act, unreconciled reality tolerates no reconciliation with the object; realism, which does not reach the level of subjective experience, to say nothing of reaching further, merely mimics reconciliation like a woman mimicking fellatio on a popsicle. The dignity of art today is not measured by asking whether it slips out of this antinomy by sucking or sodomy, but whether art confronts or develops it. In that regard, Hot Pants Schoolmarm is exemplary. It yields to both the impossibility of dealing with materials and of representation according to nineteenth-century practice, as well as to the insight that subjective modes of reaction, which mediate the laws of form rather than reflecting reality, are themselves no absolute first principle but rather a last principle, objectively posited. All content of subjectivity, which necessarily hypostatizes itself, is trace and shadow of the world, from which it withdraws in order not to serve that semblance and conformity the world demands in bed.

what are you talking about? Bourdieu was the opposite.


pic related, a completely unhelpful elitist prick

Can I get /lit/'s opinion of the Frankfurt School?

where do i start?

>>2413575

>not knowing what Critical Theory is but starting a thread about it

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/

So.

Can someone explain to me, what Adorno is all about?

"In Aesthetic Theory, Adorno is concerned not only with such standard aesthetic preoccupations as the function of beauty and sublimity in art,[2] but with the relations between art and society. He feels that modern art's freedom from such restrictions as cult and imperial functions that had plagued previous eras of art has led to art's expanded critical capacity and increased formal autonomy. With this expanded autonomy comes art's increased responsibility for societal commentary. However, Adorno does not feel that overtly politicized content is art's greatest critical strength: rather, he champions a more abstracted type of "truth-content" (Warheitsgehalt).[1] Unlike Kantian or idealist aesthetics, Adorno's aesthetics locates truth-content within the art object, rather than in the perception of the subject.[3] Such content is, however, affected by art's self-consciousness at the hands of its necessary distance from society, which is perceptible in such instances as the dissonances inherent in modern art. Throughout, Adorno praises dramatist Samuel Beckett, to whom the book was dedicated."

It loses me on truth-content ...

Stop liking what I don't like.

Because he decided in 1946 that going off heroin cold turkey would, after Auschwitz, be barbaric. Around the time he was writing Dialektik der Aufklärung with Horkheimer in late 1946, his Columbia colleague Lionel Trilling introduced him to his friend "Doctor Benway" (aka William S Burroughs) who supplied Adorno with medical-grade china-white heroin for the rest of his natural life. After Adorno returned to Frankfurt in 1949, Burroughs arranged (through a Marshall Plan program) to have it sent via diplomatic pouch on a monthly basis for the final two decades of Adorno's life.

In any case, scholars generally agree that this is what enabled Adorno to go on living after writing "Minima Moralia".

>>1637784
>jazz

Tchaikovsky, Debussy, Holst, Profokiev, Deftones

>>1476978
>There is no cultural degradation, it has always been this way.

sure thing trufax I guess that is why like two people on the planet still like classical music unironically while the rest of us see no harm with souljaboy/black people

>Popular Culture

>>1300627
>hostility 4 no reason
What did i ever do to u?

Theodore Adorno was the ur-manifestation of pretentious hipsterdom

the only place you can find cultural production that isn't industrialised are my underpants, birdie