On the whole, as in each detailed part, theoretical study consists everywhere equally of unerring devotion to the actual and of constantly renewed value judgements.
Ha ha ha, I'm in the middle of a huge Horkheimer/Marcuse/Adorno finals clusterfuck right now. My mind just keeps going AUTOCHTHONOUS NECESSITY PERICLEAN AUTONOMY RADICAL FALSITY OF BEING BEING NEGATION.
You mean aside from the utter incomprehensibility and the sexism? ;) Mostly because I think he indicts culture and the cultural shifts into capitalism from a lens that completely ignores the practical concerns of, well, REALITY.
The UNENDING SEXISM, OMG. I have notes scrawled all over my copy of Eclipse of Reason about this. "LOLOL A MAID, YOU FUCKING FUCK?"
But yeah, I agree so so much. I appreciate the work critical theorists did but take all kinds of issue with their stance on art and ~the masses. Particularly in Horkheimer and Adorno, there are all kinds of elitist, Hegelian echoes that make me uncomfortable.
You should see my copy of Dialetic of Enlightenment, which is Horkheimer and Adorno WORKING TOGETHER TO OPPRESS THOSE SILLY FLIGHTY WOMEN WHO CONSUME EVIL INSIPID MASS MEDIA EVERYWHERE. >E
My favourite thing ever is people excusing the sexism, because that's just how it was back then. They didn't have female contemporaries or predecessors, because come on, lolol lady Marxists?
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What's your particular Horkheimer beef?
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But yeah, I agree so so much. I appreciate the work critical theorists did but take all kinds of issue with their stance on art and ~the masses. Particularly in Horkheimer and Adorno, there are all kinds of elitist, Hegelian echoes that make me uncomfortable.
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