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...It’s no coincidence that Chan and Fey both work in video. Culture curmudgeon Theodor Adorno wrote that the consequences of television “will be quite enormous and promise to intensify the impoverishment of aesthetic matter so drastically, that by tomorrow the thinly veiled identity of all industrial culture products can come triumphantly out into the open.” Yup, that sounds about right, except it’s Chan and Fey’s triumph, not the industry’s. And industry is still trying to figure out what happened...
...into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory. They are the last, depleted descendants of what used to be called aesthetics, the branch of philosophy that theorized the human response to works of art. For most intents and purposes, aesthetics collapsed in 1970 under the weight of Theodor Adorno's Aesthetic Theory. What's left is books like How Fiction Works--which is, oddly, a delight, but not for the reason it's supposed...
...guilty. As a student of comparative literature and a thesis-writing senior come September, I felt I was committing my very own crime against literature. At the end of the school year, I packed up my belongings and stuck a reading list half a mile long—from Adorno to Zizek—into my suitcase. I left Cambridge this spring with a few goals for the summer: I would do some thesis research, work on my writing, finish up the novel I’d started, and commute to my internship in New York City...
...have someone who knows the debates and writing of that period exceptionally well.” Hall praised the breadth of Rosen’s intellectual interests, which has produced work on Georg Hegel and Immanuel Kant as well as more recent thinkers such as Theodor Adorno. At Harvard, Rosen will teach courses on Marxism and contemporary continental thought. He said he sees himself as helping to maintain a cross-Atlantic cultural exchange. “Being able to contribute to an American understanding of European tradition of thought at a time when clearly misunderstandings between Europe and America...
...scholars working on post-1945 art today, Buchloh is perhaps the only one for whom the question, raised by Theodor Adorno in the field of literature, about the possibility of art (and criticism) after the catastrophic trauma of World War II has remained absolutely central,” Yve-Alain Bois, the former chair of the history of art and architecture department, wrote in a note to Franklin D. Rosenblatt...