Theodor Adorno takes a selfie.
Today we're celebrating his birthday 🎂
"While Adorno is a critic of the Enlightenment, he is ultimately a critic of its failure. There has been too little enlightenment, not too much."
- Nasrullah Mambrol
Today we're celebrating his birthday 🎂
"While Adorno is a critic of the Enlightenment, he is ultimately a critic of its failure. There has been too little enlightenment, not too much."
- Nasrullah Mambrol
I didn't know that Theodor Adorno, such an important critic of avant garde music, was a composer himself. Here are his Two Pieces for String Quartet, op.2, 1924/25.
My favourite portrait of Theodor Adorno, from 1958. I wish I knew who took it.
In a letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno said this about high & popular culture: "Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up."
In a letter to Walter Benjamin, Adorno said this about high & popular culture: "Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which however they do not add up."
"The positive element of kitsch lies in the fact that it sets free for a moment the glimmering realization that you have wasted your life."
- Theodor Adorno
📷 Chris Steele-Perkins, Hiroshima (!), 2005
- Theodor Adorno
📷 Chris Steele-Perkins, Hiroshima (!), 2005
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