I’d give you a thumbs up if they were real shoes, but I suspect they’re novelty slippers, since you said they’re wool and they look soft like felt sli...
I’ll say something about the last two paragraphs of the “Infinity” section. In a nutshell, art is something to emulate, but carefully: not to imitate ...
The original geological concept makes more sense to me: it’s when a mineral replaces another mineral but takes the first one’s shape. Adorno is saying...
I suggest not making too much of his thoughts on infinity, because they're not necessary for an understanding of negative dialectics. It's just an ang...
It’s perhaps telling that whenever I criticize people for anti-intellectualism or laziness they pretend I’ve implied they’re not intellectual enough. ...
There is nothing wrong with how it’s written. The problem is that several of the readers seem to have expected something dumbed down or put in languag...
I see you removed the part of my sentence in which I framed the matter in physically geographic terms, so that you could make this controversial polit...
Thank you for thoughtfully excluding me, but I can acceptably be called either, depending on circumstances. Scotland is on the island of Great Britain...
Introduction: "Infinity" In my notes on the previous section I described the disenchantment of the concept as "bringing the concept down to Earth." In...
Since it's not directly engaged in the reading it might be better in its own thread. But to get any responses I think you’d have to do more to explain...
I wish you would host that file somewhere online so I can actually play it. Not that I'm especially desperate to hear your impersonation of a Britlady...
Introduction: Disenchantment of the Concept The first paragraph in this section has the same form as the first paragraph of the previous section: 1. T...
Yes, it's a useful update. But while all Brits and Irish are aware that Americans call crisps chips, I suspect only a small portion of Americans (say,...
I didn't know Americans had picnics. I thought it was just barbecues. Picnics require Gingham table cloths spread on the grass, and cold sausage rolls...
I had to look him up and it turned out to be a deep rabbit hole. I'm more worried about the influence of these apocalyptic tech bros than I am about g...
All right. I think you got carried away in your previous post, when you said that the meaning of "negative dialectics" was "against dialectics", when ...
When "dialectics is the ontology of the false condition" is immediately followed by "A true one would be emancipated from it," we can be confident tha...
May I remind you that Adorno is a dialectical thinker who relishes counterintuitive paradoxes? As he says, "dialectics is the ontology of the false co...
I think it's clear that he is, and that you're reading it wrong. It's a dialectical point: those most determined by the system also produce it, and th...
We have both paid very close attention to the text, but we continue to have very different interpretations. He is referring not to an elite but to any...
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