/lit/ - Literature

Just look at his psycho jew eyes

>Inter pares. – In the realm of erotic qualities, a revaluation seems to be occurring. Under liberalism, well into our day, married men from high society who were unsatisfied with their strictly brought up and correct spouses absolved themselves in the company of female artists, bohemians, sugar babies [süsse Mädeln: sweet maidens] and cocottes. With the rationalization of society this possibility of unregimented happiness has disappeared. The cocottes are extinct, the sugar babies probably never existed in Anglo-Saxon countries and other lands of technical civilization, while the female artists and those bohemians who exist parasitically in the mass culture are so thoroughly permeated with the latter’s reason, that those who flee in longing to their anarchy, to the free accessibility of their own use-value, are in danger of waking up to the obligation of engaging them as assistants, if not at least recommending them to a film-executive or scriptwriter they know.

>The only ones who are still capable of something like irrational love are precisely those ladies who the spouses once fled on excursions to Maxim’s (famous restaurant in Paris). While they are as tiresome to their own husbands, due to the latter’s fault, as their own mothers, they are at least capable of granting to others, what all others have withheld from them. The long since frigid libertine represents business, while the proper and well brought up lady represents yearning and unromantic sexuality. In the end, the ladies of society garner the honor of their dishonor, in the moment when there is no more society and no more ladies.

>leave jazz to me

>>16847880
Adorno was based, leave him alone. I don’t get how you don’t recognize that all Frankfurt thought is entirely in line with the general development of German philosophy as it had been for the previous 300 years.

Why was Adorno wrong about art and who's the modern day Adorno?

>nah bro its just the social institutions and economic apparatus that makes us degenerate it totally isn't human nature once freed of authority and cultural pressures falls into decadence and creates these institutions which perpetuates said decadence, if we were just free of societal hierarchies and constructs we would all be creative geniuses! also stop having fun

stupid fucking commie

>The triumph over beauty is celebrated by humour – the Schadenfreude that every successful deprivation calls forth. There is laughter because there is nothing to laugh at. Laughter, whether conciliatory or terrible, always occurs when some fear passes. It indicates liberation either from physical danger or from the grip of logic. Conciliatory laughter is heard as the echo of an escape from power; the wrong kind overcomes fear by capitulating to the forces which are to be feared. It is the echo of power as something inescapable. Fun is a medicinal bath. The pleasure industry never fails to prescribe it. It makes laughter the instrument of the fraud practised on happiness. Moments of happiness are without laughter; only operettas and films portray sex to the accompaniment of resounding laughter. But Baudelaire is as devoid of humour as Hölderlin. In the false society laughter is a disease which has attacked happiness and is drawing it into its worthless totality. To laugh at something is always to deride it, and the life which, according to Bergson, in laughter breaks through the barrier, is actually an invading barbaric life, self-assertion prepared to parade its liberation from any scruple when the social occasion arises. Such a laughing audience is a parody of humanity. Its members are monads, all dedicated to the pleasure of being ready for anything at the expense of everyone else. Their harmony is a caricature of solidarity. What is fiendish about this false laughter is that it is a compelling parody of the best, which is conciliatory. Delight is austere: res severa verum gaudium. The monastic theory that not asceticism but the sexual act denotes the renunciation of attainable bliss receives negative confirmation in the gravity of the lover who with foreboding commits his life to the fleeting moment. In the culture industry, jovial denial takes the place of the pain found in ecstasy and in asceticism. The supreme law is that they shall not satisfy their desires at any price; they must laugh and be content with laughter. In every product of the culture industry, the permanent denial imposed by civilisation is once again unmistakably demonstrated and inflicted on its victims. To offer and to deprive them of something is one and the same.

>i hate fascists but all my ideas would lead to it

why the fuck are neomarxists and the whole new left so retarded? was it heidegger?

Given the multitude of epistemological consecuences of the Holocaust and the Second World War in general, from postmodernism onward, would it be imprudent to view homosexuality as a response to the horrors of Nazi Germany?

>be a leftist, and thus a paranoid schizophrenic
>invent imaginary positions for your imaginary interlocutor in a nonexistent argument
>create an intricate, fictional backstory for your imaginary interlocutor
>claim this imaginary backstory for your imaginary interlocutor explains each of his imaginary positions in a pseudoscientific Freud-style causal relationship
>further blame these imaginary positions that your imaginary interlocutor holds on an vast invisible conspiracy which all of society is complicit in
>sincerely believe that your awareness of said invisible conspiracy entitles you to superior moral status (delusions of grandeur)
Leftists are mentally fucking defective 2bh. If they had it their way they would dump the whole planet in psikhushkas, probably because they know deep down that they themselves belong in a loony bin

Stop listening to jazz and stop watching movies

>>11885397
What Leftists are you talking about? Ironically, despite the Frankfurt school being called ‘destroyers of western civilization’, one of Adorno’s constant themes is that capitalism makes art worse.

More like The bore A dork knob amirite

>>11565407
Adorno's holocaust crypto-moralism makes him somehow even worse.

stop having fun