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alice roberts
fuck walter benjamin all my homies prefer 'on the fetish-character in music and the regression of listening' by theodor w. adorno
alice roberts
talk yo shit king 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
The ambivalence of the retarded listeners has its most extreme ‘expression in the fact that individuals, not yet fully reified, want to extricate themselves from the mechanism of musical reification to which they have been handed over, but that their revolts against fetishism only entangle them more deeply in it. Whenever they attempt to break away from the passive status of compulsory consumers and “‘activate’” themselves, they succumb to pseudoactivity. Types rise up from the mass of the fetarded who differentiate themselves by pseudoactivity and nevertheless make the regression more strikingly visible.