apparently youre supposed to perform. they love it when you perform. but it has to be authentic. they hate it when it's not authentic. but you have to perform
New translation by @gruidae_james of an excerpt from Adorno’s unused preface for the 1969 republication of Dialectic of Enlightenment, with final paragraph very much at odds with his image
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I have no interest in a academia whatsoever. Quality scholarship and criticism are important, and i would like to produce that—as critical theory and the social sciences have proven over the last century, the workplace is the last place you would go to see this accomplished.
Damn, the Pantheism Controversy is pretty intense and bloody. Jacobi killed Mendelsshon and Kant killed Wizenmann. And it's all over whether or not upholding the authority of Reason will lead to Spinozism *shake my damn head.*