willow: "you wanna read adorno sooooo bad"

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you wanna read adorno sooooo bad

adorno, the culture industry, 32. on the fetish character of music

But what are emancipated from formal law are no longer the productive impulses which rebelled against conventions. Impulse, subjectivity and profanation, the old adversaries of materialistic alienation,
now succumb to it. In capitalist times, the traditional anti-mythological ferments of music conspire against freedom, as whose allies they were once proscribed. The representatives of the opposition to the authoritarian schema become witnesses to the authority of commercial success. The delight in the moment and the gay façade becomes an excuse
for absolving the listener from the thought of the whole, whose claim is comprised in proper listening. The listener is converted, along his line of least resistance, into the acquiescent purchaser. No longer do the
partial moments serve as a critique of that whole; instead, they suspend the critique which the successful aesthetic totality exerts against the flawed one of society. The unitary synthesis is sacrificed to them; they no longer produce their own in place of the reified one, but show themselves complaisant to it. The isolated moments of enjoyment prove incompatible with the immanent constitution of the work of art

willowMar 4, 2024

Art’s inescapable affirmative essence has become insufferable. Art must turn against itself, in opposition to its own concept, and thus become uncertain of itself right into its innermost fiber.

February 21, 2025 at 5:52 AM

willowFeb 21, 2025

also hit up my boi nietzsche, sometimes he feels more fitting and insightful by addressing the issue less directly than adorno. sometimes the temporal and cultural familiarity of the conditions adorno is speaking to feel almost too close for me, if that makes sense. depends on the mood