Adorno always fought for the radical autonomy of art. Only as an alternative to everything else – and in radical separation from anything else – could art be able to create insights and to change the world.
What’s amazing about … Weiterlesen
What a smart explication of research! It’s not about positivist empirical studies. Instead, the concept of analysing through curiosity is the ability to observe and possibly even understand what is happening in the world.
It is only through awareness and contemplation of the past that we develop a concept of time and of the idea that there could be, and must be, a future – which, however, does not say anything about the content … Weiterlesen
This seems to be a very democratic statement; sometimes, however, extremely difficult to comply with it, and, at times, even questionable. As long as this concept of freedom is applied to judgements and opinions that are within an acceptable spectrum … Weiterlesen
Leaving aside the question as to what constitutes a talent and how a talent is implemented in real life: curiosity is the substance of experience and also of each kind of theory and of insight into what is happening now … Weiterlesen
Maya Angelou, an activist of the civil rights movement, points out the difference between ‘wish’ referring to ‘enemy’, and ‘refuse’ ascribed to ‘victim’. The wish of the wise woman in question emphasises her prudence to keep control over her own … Weiterlesen
Confronted with so many thoughtlessly expressed thoughts, whether spoken or written, one can only agree with Karl Kraus’s statement, in the passionate hope that, in particular, this second ability should materialize: to remain silent.
If traditional lies, i.e. lies that occurred further back in history, are mainly characterised by concealment and cover-up (bad enough, but that’s what political lies are anyway), they are still lies, but, with a bit of analytical thinking, there is … Weiterlesen
This quote highlights the nonsensicality of any claims of a so-called ‘post-modernity’ because modernity was aware of its state, and was not as dogmatic or as presumptuous to cling to the condition of modernity as being status quo. Rather, modernism … Weiterlesen
Although, at first glance, feelings seem to be bound up with direct experience at a given moment, they can transform into activities that linger on like an after-image.
