Thursday, December 3, 2015

ADORNO, APPARENTLY TALKING ABOUT (MIMES?)


"Every detail is so firmly stamped with sameness that nothing can appear which is not marked at birth, or does not meet with approval at first sight. And the star performers, whether they produce or reproduce, use this jargon as freely and fluently and with as much gusto as if it were the very language which it silenced long ago. Such is the ideal of what is natural ..."

---Frankfurt School: The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

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