Ziarek’s Beyond Critique? Art and Power details the complicated relationship of art and power after modernity’s realization of the limits of critique. This essay would be ideal for anyone interested in the power of art to open up the critical conversation while freeing critique in some sense from the oppressive structures of rhetoric. [...]
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Krzysztof Ziarek: Beyond Critique? Art and Power
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Rose: Adorno and Reification
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Rose claims that Adorno’s concept of reification is an original to his thought, and based in large part off of Marx’s distinction of use-value and exchange-value. Rose first speaks of the difference between the concept and object, a difference with which reification is intimately concerned. It is important to note that the German Begriff, [...]
Martin Jay: Mass Culture and Aesthetic Redemption
Posted in Horkheimer, Uncategorized, tagged Add new tag, art, avant-garde, esotericism, Horkheimer, Kraucer, modernism, redemption on April 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In Mass Culture and Aesthetic Redemption: The Debate between Max Horkheimer and Siegfried Kracuer, Martin Jay explores the potential of art to redeem mass culture by dialoguing the contradictory thoughts of Horkheimer and Kracuer. In so doing, he offers an outline of their implicit debate and ultimately suggests with reservation the impossibility of [...]
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