>The critique of culture is confronted with the last stage in the dialectic of culture and barbarism: to write a poem after Auschwitz is barbaric, and that corrodes also the knowledge which expresses why it has become impossible to write poetry today.I found his reading of the Odyssey quite interesting >[Odysseus] knows only two possibilities of escape. One he prescribes to his comrades. He plugs their ears with wax and orders them to row with all their might. Anyone who wishes to survive must not listen to the temptation of the irrecoverable, and is unable to listen only if he is unable to hear. Society has always made sure that this was the case. Workers must look ahead with alert concentration and ignore anything which lies to one side. The urge toward distraction must be grimly sublimated in redoubled exertions. Thus the workers are made practical. The other possibility Odysseus chooses for himself, the landowner, who has others to work for him. He listens, but does so while bound helplessly to the mast. … The bonds by which he has irrevocably fettered himself to praxis at the same time keep the Sirens at a distance from praxis: their lure is neutralized as a mere object of contemplation, as art. … Odysseus is represented in the sphere of work. Just as he cannot give way to the lure of self-abandonment, as owner he also forfeits participation in work and finally even control over it, while his companions, despite their closeness to things, cannot enjoy their work because it is performed under compulsion, in despair, with their senses forcibly stopped.>The test she sets Odysseus concerns the immovable position of the marriage bed which her husband, as a young man, had constructed around an olive tree, a symbol of the unity of sex and property. With touching artfulness she refers to this bed as if it could be moved from the spot, whereupon her husband, "flaring up" and "rounding on" his wife, proceeds to give circumstantial account of his durable amateur handiwork: as a prototypical bourgeois he is smart enough to have a hobby. It consists in a resumption of the craft work from which, within the framework of differentiated property relations, he has long since been exempted. He enjoys this occupation, as his freedom to perform superfluous tasks confirms his power over those who have to do such work in order to live.
I refuse to be held back from creating art by a Jew asshurt over the Holocaust. If he was smart at all he must have known his words would fall on deaf ears, and deservedly so.
>>24958397>Still alive almost 100 years after the holohoax Were they born in the camps?
>>24958404The Holocaust is way more significant than your shitty poetry
>>24958411>born in a death campI don't know how anyone takes them seriouslyThere's one where apparently he was a prize fighter boxer and fought in drtah matches for his head guard and itcs the silliest fanfiction I've ever heard of I burst out laughing. All the info ofc is sourced by his son who doesn't have a shred of proofhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Haft
>>24958417It is arguably the greatest piece of narrative fiction in history
>>24958417And the Resurrection was even more significant, but you'll never see any of these Shylocks admit to that.
>>24958397adorno managed to turn a revolutionary ideology into a new source of legitimacy for liberalism. he was comically wrong
He was just trying to be poetic
im skeptical of all of these freudian- or jungian -----esque attempts to undercover the secret meaning of some classical work, more often than not its just somebody reading too hard into it and inserting their own take into itas for the "writing poetry after auschwitz is barbaric" quote which made chuds here seethe uncontrollably a few weeks back, i think its a fairly reasonable, even if tongue-in-cheek, take: within 30 years civil, european bourgeois society devolved twice into barbarism (and auschwitz is the best though certainly not only example) - after the war the same upper-middle class and the elite went back into making frivolous and circlejerky artalso what the fuck is this new captcha
>>24958446The irony is that Dadaism was meant to make a statement about the barbarism of such art after WWI, but ended up being assimilated by it
