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the naysayers

November 15, 2015 by slow shimo

The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture (alex ross) The New Yorker, September 15, 2014   In Jonathan Franzen’s 2001 novel, “The Corrections,” a disgraced academic named Chip Lambert, who has abandoned Marxist theory in favor of screenwriting, goes to the Strand Bookstore, in downtown Manhattan, to sell off his library of dialectical tomes. The works of Theodor W. Adorno, Jürgen Habermas, Fredric Jameson, and various others cost Chip nearly four thousand dollars to acquire; their […]

Categories: i like short stories & sometimes poetry, literat, philo & crit • Tags: adorno, critical theory, the new yorker, walter benjamin

minima moralia: gaps

March 7, 2015 by slow shimo

entry 50, minima moralia (t.w.adorno) Gaps. — The injunction to practise intellectual honesty usually amounts to sabotage of thought. The writer is urged to show explicitly all the steps that have led him to his conclusion, so enabling every reader to follow the process through and, where possible – in the academic industry – to duplicate it. This demand not only invokes the liberal fiction of the universal communicability of each and every thought and so inhibits their objectively appropriate […]

Categories: literat, philo & crit • Tags: adorno, gaps, minima moralia

the essay as form

March 3, 2015 by slow shimo

The Essay as Form (t.w. adorno) Theodor W. Adorno, “The Essay as Form,” Notes to Literature, volume one. Trans. Sherry Weber Nicholsen. New York: Columbia University Press, 1991, 3-4. That in Germany the essay is condemned as a hybrid, that the form has no compelling tradition, that its emphatic demands are met only intermittently – all this has been said, and censured, often enough. “The essay form has not yet, today, traveled the road to independence which its sister, poetry, covered long […]

Categories: literat, philo & crit • Tags: adorno, essay as form

if black english isn’t a language, then tell me, what is?

February 24, 2015 by slow shimo

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? (james baldwin) St. Paul de Vence, France–The argument concerning the use, or the status, or the reality, of black English is rooted in American history and has absolutely nothing to do with the question the argument supposes itself to be posing. The argument has nothing to do with language itself but with the role of language. Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language, also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the […]

Categories: literat, philo & crit • Tags: james baldwin

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