Jamal

The best approach is to work out how LND and ItS can be consistent. Two comments of yours, one from your most recent post and the other from the previ...

Interesting. Like art, it seems to belong in the category of value, not the category of utility. I'd be inclined to think of nostalgia as a spandrel, ...

I wonder what you think of the following quotation from his sociology lectures, a year or two later than the LND: Is this consistent with your interpr...

@"Metaphysician Undercover" I'll try again. Ok, so the "Yeah! Yeah" refers to the enthusiastic affirmation of ideology, i.e., of prevailing beliefs li...

On ideology in particular I think you're not seeing the forest for the trees, maybe because you're reading too much into some ambiguous comments in wh...

It was the first time I'd cooked a whole one, and the first time I'd roasted a rabbit over hot wood. I went against the advice not to do so and the re...

Thank you. I thought it was delicious, far more delicious than I expected, but the ladies hated it and forced me to cook some chicken for them.

https://i.postimg.cc/BQH1V0MX/PXL-20250531-160351578.jpg Cooked a rabbit on the fire. The odd thing is that it came with one foot still intact, with t...

Good morning MU. Oh right. Well, I disagree with that too, but it's less important so I'll leave it there. :grin: You won't be surprised to learn that...

Remember the old days when you could rebuild your house with Ctrl+Alt+Delete? I confess I consciously repressed my native spelling just to fit in.

Last night I dreamed I could ctrl+F to find things in my house and they'd light up like selected text. Not exactly sure how it worked.

I applaud your effort but it looks like a stretch to me. No doubt there's much more to be said, so feel free, but I don't think I have anything else a...

Well, it’s both, and anyway it doesn’t follow that Adorno puts ideology on the side of essence. It’s a feature of society, but he makes a distinction ...

Nice interpretation, very subtle and deep. The only defect I can see is that it's wrong. I might elaborate later, although I fear I'd just be repeatin...

Being a productive member of society is overrated.

Yes, but it required careful calibration: https://i.postimg.cc/R018jwr2/ballmer-peak.png

The blind leading the blind? :wink:

Yeah I haven't even read his writing on jazz and only know about it from secondary sources. I've probably avoided it for similar reasons as you. But I...

Yes, sounds right. Although Adorno would no doubt caution you against being satisfied with anything clicking into place.

Then I suggest you avoid what he says about movies and jazz :grin: Unless you really hate movies and jazz. Me, I think he just got it wrong, and didn'...

It occurred to me that his attitude can also be seen in the idea of a culture industry: the target is not "mass culture," which might imply a culture ...

Orujo de hierbas? I never had it. On wikipedia it says “In the past, farmers used to drink it after breakfast … before work in the fields at dawn, and...

While I was in Dénia I took up the local habit of having beer with breakfast. It was a delightful experience. BTW, I base this characterization of Dén...

I know what you mean about “bleating,” but with Adorno it definitely isn't disdain for the herd, at least not in this case: So the bleaters are Heideg...

Yes, me too.

I don't understand this interpretation of ideology as essence, since it undermines his whole point about breaking through the facade: On one side he h...

Don't worry, I'm probably wrong.

The one I linked to earlier: https://www.reddit.com/r/CriticalTheory/comments/1h7l2qk/good_leftist_critiques_of_identity_politicswokeism/

Doesn't seem very objectionable to me. I'd make a couple of minor changes but I think it's basically right. It is not as it stands an endorsement of i...

That doesn't seem all that far from his view actually.

Yeah, I've read the prologue and a page or two of the introduction and it just doesn't feel like a good translation. I have no way of knowing if it is...

No, theory is great! It's the practical stuff that's boring. :yawn: :wink: I think Zizek once (probably more than once) complained about people who ad...

Yeah, you'd expect at least a Cadillac Eldorado.

Well, that list on Reddit is made up mostly of leftist thinkers, so there's a fairly strong contingent. Zizek is another prominent leftist critic of w...

Indeed, there are leftist critiques of identity politics that make similar points, tying it to neoliberalism. One example: If that’s too shallow, I fo...

It's a good line. I hadn't heard it before. And it's good to set against the impression that anarchism is ... kinda boring.

A couple of other things I found interesting in lecture 10: As a deracinated, debased subject myself, I resemble that remark. I like his attitude to h...

Yes, good point. Preserving "essence" importantly traces his use of the legacy of Hegel and Marx. You have a talent for concision. :up:

You're quite close to my own idea of ideology, but your interpretation differs from mine at critical points. First, I think you're missing that Adorno...

Pretty much. I'm just saying I might skim read the rest in one go and write a post collecting a few thoughts about what's there, just before starting ...

LND lecture 10 In this lecture he talks about essence vs. appearance, philosophical depth, and reaffirms the importance of negation. He's circling aro...

Don't be a bore. All I did was mock your post for its excessive length, and implied that reading Marx instead of reading your posts is a better use of...

You got the wrong end of the stick.

A beginner won’t have the time to get through Marx if they feel obliged to read your rambling mega-posts.

I used to think so too, but now I’m not so sure. Is one pointing at the same thing when one says it's unsayable as when one says that concepts are dis...

I treat anarchism as left libertarianism unless it's otherwise qualified. Even though the word 'anarchy' literally just means without a leader or with...

Welcome to the forum! Your post isn't low quality. It's honest and curious and serves as a great starting point to discuss a topic that is hotly conte...

This is a very good point. It's too easy when reading Adorno (and Horkheimer) to interpret them as always viewing science as the enemy, but that's lik...

I don't think he mentions anyone, but examples of philosophy that tries to be art might be the novels of Sartre and Camus, late Heidegger, and maybe s...

As I recall (I don't have the lectures to hand right now) he mentions a few examples of art that tries to be philosophical. Mystical French and German...