Adorno about Popular Music (now with english annotation)

@spinoza1111 btw I'm reading Baudelaire now (Painter of Modern Life) who sounds like Benjamin and our fat ol' pal.

Actually, "wahre" etc. don't refer at all to "critical and Marxist theory". They refer to that-which-is-consumed.

@spinoza1111 hahahah!!!!!

He's my kinda guy, 10ee, a disobliging and (cf Muller Doohm) horny old gentleman

@spinoza1111 haha. I search one videoclip of Adorno and I find you on the first page, Ed ;)

If Adorno speaks about consuming stuff, he refers to consum of a "Ware" (Product made to be selled).
"Wahre", "Warencharakter" etc. are refering to critical and marxist theory. If you do not know anything about this, you cant really understand what Adorno is saying.

It is easy, and critical, to "contemplate art without 'consuming' it". La Gioconde (Mona Lisa) was completely destroyed by the admiration of idiots by the time Marcel Duchamp painted a moustace on Mona Lisa.

Any lazy or pretentious reception destroys the aura of a work of art. You are spozed to contemplate and not consume. Cf Adorno: we owe Beethoven far more than anything he owes us.

Being bored in fact a good thing, it shows a proper relationship to a work which has not been "consumed".

Absolutely. For if society is as truly messed up as we all think it is, then being in society's collective minde a douchebag would be an honor. And note that the FEAR of being singled out as a douchebag or scape-goat is the survival of an older moral system, one of human sacrifice. Cf the Chosen One in Stravinsky.

What is the name of this Documentary?

Excellent question. I think we would have to inquire into his sense of the word "consumption". I assume it has something to do with mass consumption and the pacifying and stultifying effect I understand he believed it had on populations.

I don't think we can conclude from these few seconds that he was a fraud!