hey thanks for posting this video, I think you would get something out of reading Lloyd DeMauses books on psychohistory! they answer a lot of questions about why society is the way it is
That doesn't change the fact that no matter what the new leftists are teaching, it's always necessary to have an elite governing the country. There have never been counterexamples and for good reason too. The elite is necessarily corrupt, more in some countries than in others. The communist elite wasn't only corrupt, but also traitors who used the Soviet Union's army to control their own populace (even if only implicitly). People would never vote against their own money to get others'.
I'm about to graduate college with a degree in Communication Media: Management and I just noticed Adorno along with Harkheimer and Marcuse as footnotes into a chapter I'm reading. I really wish that I had heard about them earlier in my studies, but I had to learn about them on my own time. there is something wrong with that picture.
Thank you for this interesting video. However, as a former student composer, I have to say his outlook, for me personally, is profoundly repellant. A kind of toxic potion which created a false aesthetic and led to any composer not writing in a certain specific way to be demonised and not performed. He strikes me with his mouthy attacks on the likes of Sibelius and Stravinsky as a failed composer with a chip on his shoulder. Indeed as a composer his own work barely rises above the mediocre itself
@tadpole3535 No, I didn't. This guy is obviously into the whole social experimentation stuff, a'la Khmer Rouge. You see, what all radical lefties are missing is that what they're grappling with is human nature. Eventually socialist countries realised this and (on the extremes) either settled into a soft opression or built work camps to make everyone into a new man, which not even the most adamant communists really were. The party elite had the car with drivers and the big houses. They are crooks
@andrasgerlits Do you know about the other two big social experimentations "grappling with human nature"? They're called civilization and democracy. When you read Adorno and Marcuse, you'll realize that they've been denouncing the Soviet Union since the 1920s for becoming just like Early Capitalism by abandoning democracy. Manchesterism, colonialism, and imperialism already way before WWI include all the features you're pointing out as if they were somehow unique to the Soviet system.
by using media, computers and such, which are usually produced in factories or websites too, which are of the same progeny, well i guess this posit itself is being appropriated by the capitalist mode.
since when is minima moralia accessible....i encountered this book in graduate school and the professor warned us about the inaccessibility of this book, still a great read. and very worthwhile. marx, adorno, schopenhauer, heidegger--my philosophical heroes.
This is, quite frankly, outstanding. The last two-or-three minutes are very poignant, landing in the question: how can we become better people? Yes, something very interesting is happening, when we start to communicate and share stuff with each other - much as you do - outside the systems of economic interest. There is a shimmer of hope ....
I have had so much joy out of your writings and podcasting and I reference you alla over the place in some of my own texts (not published yet).
Thank you! I understand Adorno somewhat now. I used to think he was an angry man who hated the world, but now I can see why he's interesting to study. PS: you have very expressive eyebrows!
I have not read adorno but now I will definetly look into him. Also thank you for ending on a positive note, it gave me a bit of optimisim in these increasingly bleak times. If people communicating directly with each other, bypassing the normal channels controlled by capital and directed by the constant search for profit, is not a positive development then I fear our project is doomed to begin with.
If you change the background and the camera position, the real quality of the video's message will be widely recognized. I was a bit skeptical at the beginning, but it's a great gift you have - to express your opinion so clearly and help us who are caught a bit unsure and confused about Adorno's message. So, thanks :)
i like Moborno more he said that when the pyschial mechanics demonstrate the object within the subject, there is a sort of hyperreality that is different-but-the-same as the reciprication of idealism and materialism, it sort of culminates into a self-inflagation of the diamorphisms of the father, where instead of becoming sublation of the father or a self imposition of it into the super-ego it becomes an anti-repression, the father is realized but this self realization, autonomy itself
@gen6k is alienated beyond negation of the identity, of the absolute, where it cannot reificate the warenmach at all, and in turn it doesn't decline but capitalism realizes its end goal for a moment in its liberation of capitalization, of pure stirnerism, where autonomous zones find a rapid nonidenity in the experience of reality for the first time
good video...nice to hear someone discussing these ideas rationally instead of talking about Marxist Jewish conspiracies to take over America like a lot of the videos you get on here when you search for 'Frankfurt School'.
i hope that you're right about the digital commons - i'm not sure i see it so optimistically. i wonder what Adorno (and Horkheimer, his main collaborator) would say about the technification that it depends on, and how that drives alienation in the culture.
nice work! adorno is both a diagnostician and a cultural physician who's prescriptive, philosophizing a space for human agency and resistance. One contemporary example of resistance to oppression, which his work ('culture industry') intimates, is 'media' working on the side of the individual (in the form of personally owned video-digital cameras) to expose the internal, and once hidden, contradictions within the system's repressive state apparatuses, e.g., the rodney king tapes...
Great video!!! I recently read a book of his called the Dialectic of Enlightenment. He stands out for me as one of the best if not the best thinker of the 20th century due to his break from logical positivism which was still in vogue during his day. However, he still retained an analytical point of view when it came to analyzing not just capitalism, but the inherent flaws within civilization itself.
You are wonderful very eloquent description of some key concepts of Adornos thought...I am organizing a way to resist media currently so Adorno will be another weapon in the arsenal. I will get back to you on this and will continue watching!
hi, i really like ur insight into Adorno, i am using his text for my dissertation and would love your email address please to get a few discussions from you on Adorno and popular music. if u dont mind. Thanks
I like the more simple way in which this speaker discusses/explains Adorno. I'm starving for this type of more easily understood discussions suorrounding Adorno and his comments on Culture in particular. Please do more of these videos...particularly trying to best explain Media/Culture and why understanding it from a critical thought process is so important today and going forward.
excellent introduction - thanks.
mcroeser 1 month ago
hey thanks for posting this video, I think you would get something out of reading Lloyd DeMauses books on psychohistory! they answer a lot of questions about why society is the way it is
IllichSketchShow 1 month ago
That doesn't change the fact that no matter what the new leftists are teaching, it's always necessary to have an elite governing the country. There have never been counterexamples and for good reason too. The elite is necessarily corrupt, more in some countries than in others. The communist elite wasn't only corrupt, but also traitors who used the Soviet Union's army to control their own populace (even if only implicitly). People would never vote against their own money to get others'.
andrasgerlits 3 months ago
I'm about to graduate college with a degree in Communication Media: Management and I just noticed Adorno along with Harkheimer and Marcuse as footnotes into a chapter I'm reading. I really wish that I had heard about them earlier in my studies, but I had to learn about them on my own time. there is something wrong with that picture.
JackiJinx 4 months ago
this is hilarious!
love the background.
cricket5387cricket 5 months ago
great, great, great. So, more questioning?
bluepianopoet 5 months ago
great job
786vinay 6 months ago
Thank you for this interesting video. However, as a former student composer, I have to say his outlook, for me personally, is profoundly repellant. A kind of toxic potion which created a false aesthetic and led to any composer not writing in a certain specific way to be demonised and not performed. He strikes me with his mouthy attacks on the likes of Sibelius and Stravinsky as a failed composer with a chip on his shoulder. Indeed as a composer his own work barely rises above the mediocre itself
egapnala65 6 months ago
Get yourself a girl and do something with your life, stop trying to change mine.
andrasgerlits 7 months ago
@andrasgerlits You obviously missed the point.
tadpole3535 4 months ago
@tadpole3535 No, I didn't. This guy is obviously into the whole social experimentation stuff, a'la Khmer Rouge. You see, what all radical lefties are missing is that what they're grappling with is human nature. Eventually socialist countries realised this and (on the extremes) either settled into a soft opression or built work camps to make everyone into a new man, which not even the most adamant communists really were. The party elite had the car with drivers and the big houses. They are crooks
andrasgerlits 4 months ago
@andrasgerlits Do you know about the other two big social experimentations "grappling with human nature"? They're called civilization and democracy. When you read Adorno and Marcuse, you'll realize that they've been denouncing the Soviet Union since the 1920s for becoming just like Early Capitalism by abandoning democracy. Manchesterism, colonialism, and imperialism already way before WWI include all the features you're pointing out as if they were somehow unique to the Soviet system.
tlatosmd 4 months ago
@andrasgerlits khmer rouge ?marcuse wrote essays about the ussr for the oss .
deichbeat 3 months ago
Thanks man, that was interesting! Did you read that book in German?!
I like the teddies btw!
jazzmunky 7 months ago
by using media, computers and such, which are usually produced in factories or websites too, which are of the same progeny, well i guess this posit itself is being appropriated by the capitalist mode.
serverx5000 7 months ago
join hands somewhere, just not on the web, stuck in the threads awaiting the bite of death
serverx5000 7 months ago
since when is minima moralia accessible....i encountered this book in graduate school and the professor warned us about the inaccessibility of this book, still a great read. and very worthwhile. marx, adorno, schopenhauer, heidegger--my philosophical heroes.
codylawrence100 8 months ago
This is, quite frankly, outstanding. The last two-or-three minutes are very poignant, landing in the question: how can we become better people? Yes, something very interesting is happening, when we start to communicate and share stuff with each other - much as you do - outside the systems of economic interest. There is a shimmer of hope ....
I have had so much joy out of your writings and podcasting and I reference you alla over the place in some of my own texts (not published yet).
Torsgode 8 months ago
Thank you! I understand Adorno somewhat now. I used to think he was an angry man who hated the world, but now I can see why he's interesting to study. PS: you have very expressive eyebrows!
LasEsisters 8 months ago
I have not read adorno but now I will definetly look into him. Also thank you for ending on a positive note, it gave me a bit of optimisim in these increasingly bleak times. If people communicating directly with each other, bypassing the normal channels controlled by capital and directed by the constant search for profit, is not a positive development then I fear our project is doomed to begin with.
carlomartu 8 months ago
If you change the background and the camera position, the real quality of the video's message will be widely recognized. I was a bit skeptical at the beginning, but it's a great gift you have - to express your opinion so clearly and help us who are caught a bit unsure and confused about Adorno's message. So, thanks :)
dalla48 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Helped a lot with this darn essay im busy writing
Slyflea007 11 months ago
Where did you go? I was hoping to see more vids but it seems you have left youtube.
OurFadedGarden 11 months ago
i like Moborno more he said that when the pyschial mechanics demonstrate the object within the subject, there is a sort of hyperreality that is different-but-the-same as the reciprication of idealism and materialism, it sort of culminates into a self-inflagation of the diamorphisms of the father, where instead of becoming sublation of the father or a self imposition of it into the super-ego it becomes an anti-repression, the father is realized but this self realization, autonomy itself
gen6k 11 months ago
@gen6k is alienated beyond negation of the identity, of the absolute, where it cannot reificate the warenmach at all, and in turn it doesn't decline but capitalism realizes its end goal for a moment in its liberation of capitalization, of pure stirnerism, where autonomous zones find a rapid nonidenity in the experience of reality for the first time
gen6k 11 months ago
Fantastic Video-- Thanks for taking the time to express your thoughts and upload them!
Desalbert 1 year ago
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isaacman111 1 year ago
well done young man!
TZAVELENA 1 year ago
great vid thanks for posting it, really interesting!
TheAceVie 1 year ago 2
I dig Teddy and the teddybears ...
CaptainBluebear08 1 year ago
good video...nice to hear someone discussing these ideas rationally instead of talking about Marxist Jewish conspiracies to take over America like a lot of the videos you get on here when you search for 'Frankfurt School'.
i hope that you're right about the digital commons - i'm not sure i see it so optimistically. i wonder what Adorno (and Horkheimer, his main collaborator) would say about the technification that it depends on, and how that drives alienation in the culture.
pazomblez 1 year ago 2
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Bolinas1971 1 year ago
Most Expressive Eyebrows EVER! Also, great video!
saladshootavvv 1 year ago 2
Yeah!
taratasarar 1 year ago
Thx dude, I had to do a study on Adorno and this video sure helped a lot. You have great insights and a consistent, clear way of expressing them.
crowdsmurf 1 year ago 2
nice work! adorno is both a diagnostician and a cultural physician who's prescriptive, philosophizing a space for human agency and resistance. One contemporary example of resistance to oppression, which his work ('culture industry') intimates, is 'media' working on the side of the individual (in the form of personally owned video-digital cameras) to expose the internal, and once hidden, contradictions within the system's repressive state apparatuses, e.g., the rodney king tapes...
towpathsatan 1 year ago
Great video.
comradshaw 1 year ago
good stuff, thanks
Sacher01 1 year ago
Sweet video. I had a very similar experience reading MM for the first time.
tneal86 1 year ago
Great video!!! I recently read a book of his called the Dialectic of Enlightenment. He stands out for me as one of the best if not the best thinker of the 20th century due to his break from logical positivism which was still in vogue during his day. However, he still retained an analytical point of view when it came to analyzing not just capitalism, but the inherent flaws within civilization itself.
Alberto2382 1 year ago
u look funny as hell
jhg123456 1 year ago
Oh thank God I thought I was completely lost. Actually thank YOU for clarifying his quite radical theories. That was very clear :)
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Misantropo04 1 year ago
Great Video...
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Misantropo04 1 year ago
Great video, some really digestible Adorno...
joadify 1 year ago 2
You are wonderful very eloquent description of some key concepts of Adornos thought...I am organizing a way to resist media currently so Adorno will be another weapon in the arsenal. I will get back to you on this and will continue watching!
g00ch 2 years ago
hi, i really like ur insight into Adorno, i am using his text for my dissertation and would love your email address please to get a few discussions from you on Adorno and popular music. if u dont mind. Thanks
Dill4387 2 years ago
I like the more simple way in which this speaker discusses/explains Adorno. I'm starving for this type of more easily understood discussions suorrounding Adorno and his comments on Culture in particular. Please do more of these videos...particularly trying to best explain Media/Culture and why understanding it from a critical thought process is so important today and going forward.
TheDBER 2 years ago