“The splinter in you eye is the best magnifying glass.”

“The splinter in you eye is the best magnifying glass.”

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Who needs friends when you have the Frankfurt School?

Who needs friends when you have the Frankfurt School?

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This book is actually making me chuckle a bunch.

Horkheimer: I couldn't care less about sending spacecraft to the moon.
Adorno: There is nothing sacred about technology.

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"Where art is experienced purely aesthetically, it fails to be experienced even aesthetically."

- Theodore Adorno, Aesthetic Theory

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"What makes theory more than a mere instrument of practice is the fact that it reflects on itself, and in so doing it rescinds itself as mere theory."

- Theodor W. Adorno - Towards a New Manifesto (via basedsushigoat)

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#marxism #frankfurt school #theodor adorno #antonio gamsci

"In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing more than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so."

- Adorno, Minima Moralia, They, the people 

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I bought books. 

I bought books. 

#unintentionally all published by verso #instagram #jean-paul sartre #war diaries #theodor adorno #max horkheimer #towards a new manifesto #emilie bickerton #a short history of cahiers du cinema #judith butler #precarious life #terrence real #i don't want to talk about it

"i consider him the naked mole rat of marxism"

- oedipalopus on Adorno

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