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Into Quotes by Theodor Adorno
- Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
- Because thought has by now been perverted into the solving of assigned problems, even what is not assigned is processed like a problem.
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order.
- The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike…
- The task of art today is to bring chaos into order. Artistic productivity is the capacity for being voluntarily involuntary.
- So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not…
- What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause…
- The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own…
- Life has changed into a timeless succession of shocks, interspaced with empty, paralysed intervals.
- In the innermost recesses of humanism, as its very soul, there rages a frantic prisoner who, as a Fascist, turns the world into a prison.
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