“Humans believe themselves free of fear when there is no longer anything unknown. This has determined the path of demythologization … . Enlightenment is mythical fear radicalized” - Adorno, DE
what they find really mythical in both myth and enlightenment is the thought that fundamental change is impossible. Such resistance to change characterizes both ancient myths of fate and modern devotion to the facts...
...A dialectical enlightenment of enlightenment “discloses each image as script. It teaches us to read from [the image's] features the admission of falseness which cancels its power and hands it over to truth”
Adorno regards authentic works of (modern) art as social monads. The unavoidable tensions within them express unavoidable conflicts within the larger sociohistorical process from which they arise and to which they belong.
SEP entry, "Adorno"
“a long list of things that quicken the heart.”
“Part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn’t obtain how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself.” Narrator, 10:04
"I find it very nearly impossible to read a contemporary novel that presents itself unselfconsciously as a novel, since it's not clear to me how such a book could convey what it feels like to be alive right now." - David Shields
“I’m scared of contemporary fiction because it often seems to me like the author is trying to write something that could be easily adapted into a movie.” Fie on intense plot, she says. She wants intense language and intellection." - Annie Nugent Baker
There really are some people for whom life is a daily struggle. I’m pretty sure that the point and meaning of life is to ensure that as few as possible have to exist in that way. And that’s only possible if we stop assuming that we all do. - Justin Evans, The Lonely Intellectual, ThePointMag
what they find really mythical in both myth and enlightenment is the thought that fundamental change is impossible. Such resistance to change characterizes both ancient myths of fate and modern devotion to the facts...
...A dialectical enlightenment of enlightenment “discloses each image as script. It teaches us to read from [the image's] features the admission of falseness which cancels its power and hands it over to truth”
Adorno regards authentic works of (modern) art as social monads. The unavoidable tensions within them express unavoidable conflicts within the larger sociohistorical process from which they arise and to which they belong.
SEP entry, "Adorno"
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| Viewers dip in and out of “The Clock,” Christian Marclay |
But what happens next is that you are thrown — or rather eased — into another movie. Film proceeds by means of phantom continuity. The imperceptible gaps between the frames and the smooth cuts between shots fool the eye and the mind into perceiving a steady flow of action. This is enabled by a syntax that after more than a century, we absorb intuitively: A man walks through a door and we will see him on the other side of it.
In “The Clock,” though, it is a different man and a different house, a different movie. The overlapping sound creates a new illusion: that all movies are contiguous, part of a boundaryless second reality that reflects our own even as it obeys its own spectral, magical logic. -A.O. Scott, "The Clock" You Always the Time, NYT
“a long list of things that quicken the heart.”
“Part of what I loved about poetry was how the distinction between fiction and nonfiction didn’t obtain how the correspondence between text and world was less important than the intensities of the poem itself.” Narrator, 10:04
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"I find it very nearly impossible to read a contemporary novel that presents itself unselfconsciously as a novel, since it's not clear to me how such a book could convey what it feels like to be alive right now." - David Shields
“I’m scared of contemporary fiction because it often seems to me like the author is trying to write something that could be easily adapted into a movie.” Fie on intense plot, she says. She wants intense language and intellection." - Annie Nugent Baker
There really are some people for whom life is a daily struggle. I’m pretty sure that the point and meaning of life is to ensure that as few as possible have to exist in that way. And that’s only possible if we stop assuming that we all do. - Justin Evans, The Lonely Intellectual, ThePointMag
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