Hurry, soon all the good ones might be gone.>Fun ist ein Stahlbad ("Fun is a steel bath")
>The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass available.
>>25474017Sorry cunt, this is a Lukacs board.
>>25474060"I'm a fucking Jewish faggot" most powerful words he ever uttered
>>25474089>He who thinks is not angry.
>>25474088ENTER
>>25474017>>Fun ist ein Stahlbad ("Fun is a steel bath")Adorno was the 20th century version of the faggot in pic related.
>No thought is a thought - or more than a tautology - that does not also desire somethingfrom the jargon of authenticity.same idea is explored into aphorism 79 from minima moralia, which could basically be talking about ai. check it out.
>>25474256>explored intoexplored in
>>25474017>dialectical "scientific" history
>>25474264what point are you trying to make about adorno and his negative dialectics? idgi
>>25474256Yeah now that you point it out 79 does anticipate it. First we instrumentalize reason and then we outsource the instrumentalized reason to AI. I think there is something to be explored here since Adorno considers the instrumentalized reason to fetishize power externally and internally in reason. Does the balance change when thinking is outsourced
>Powerless in an overwhelming society, the individual experiences himself only as socially mediated. The institutions made by people are thus additionally fetishized: since subjects have known themselves only as exponents of institutions, these have acquired the aspect of something divinely ordained. You feel yourself to the marrow a doctor’s wife, a member of a faculty, a chairman of the committee of religious experts—I once heard a villain publicly use that phrase without raising a laugh—as one might in other times have felt oneself part of a family or tribe. You become once again in consciousness what you are in your being in any case. Compared to the illusion of the self-sufficient personality existing independently in the commodity society, such consciousness is truth.
>>25474091Clearly he was either wrong or unthinking
>>25474374What I don't understand is why he gave so much of a shit about "masculinity." Was it insecurity?
>>25474197Based faggot in pic related.
>>25474374I've read the whole essay. It's actually pretty interesting but him writing it before the development of modal and third stream feels like Francis Fukuyama saying history was over after the Cold War.
>>25474408It's just psychoanalysis.
>>25474408the context is that jazz was seen at the time as music of sexual freedom and excess. adorno is trying to create a perspective from which jazz appears as the opposite: one component in the careful regulation of human energies by economic forces.it's not about masculinity itself. it's about the commodified forms of masculinity. people want to be masculine because it represents strength and autonomy; commodified masculinity seems to provide them that, but from a broader perspective it does the opposite, solidifying their weakness and subordination.
