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Reading Notes: Minima Moralia

Feb 09, 2004 13:17

If Marx was a product of an earlier voluntarist∑ period of social transformation, of the age during and before-- on the threshold of-- socialist revolution and the collapse of capitalism, then Adorno is the product of an age marked, as some say our own is marked, by fatalism, an age where the structures of domination, commodification, and control ( Read more... )

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rebrane February 14 2004, 02:51:31 UTC

This isn't related to Minima Moralia -- I just wanted to post it on the most recent discussion forum.

This is a Flash animation, set to "Tubular Bells," which purports to lay out the philosophic basis of libertarianism. It might as well have been written by a Marxist to mock the philosophic basis of libertarianism; but I suspect it's meant in earnest.

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/liberty.php

Enjoy.

LA Photos--1944 to 1947 anonymous February 14 2004, 15:50:32 UTC

Did you ever wonder what the LA that Adorno wrote about in Minima Moralia looked like? Well look no further...
http://accuweather.ap.org/cgi-bin/aplaunch.pl
(just type in some dates "from 1/1/1944 to 12/31/1947" and "los angeles") It's mostly movie stars and big long range shots of the city, but still relevant.
owen.