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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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7 years, 9 months ago

political reality is trivialized

[...] This is why the buffoonery of fascism, evoked by Chaplin as well, was at the same time also its ultimate horror. If this is suppressed, and a few sorry exploiters of greengrocers are mocked, where key positions of economic power are actually at issue, the attack misfires. The Great Dictator

—p.184 Aesthetics and Politics Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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Sartre on committed art topic/literary-theory

[...] Committed art in the proper sense is not intended to generate ameliorative measures, legislative acts or practical institutions--like earlier propagandist plays against syphilis, duels, abortion laws or borstals--but to work at the level of fundamental attitudes. For Sartre its task is to awa…

—p.180 Commitment (177) by Theodor W. Adorno
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desperately tugging at his chains

For all this, it is impossible to rid oneself of the feeling that here is a man who is desperately tugging at his chains, imagining all the while that their clanking heralds the onward march of the world-spirit. He remains dazzled by the power which would never take his insubordinate ideas to heart…

—p.175 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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this invalidates the caricature project/dystopian-fiction

[...] When Brecht, to take an example, devised a kind of childish shorthand to try and crystallize out the essence of Fascism in terms of a sort of gangsterism, he made his 'resistible' dictator, Arturo Ui, the head of an imaginary and apocryphal Cauliflower Trust, instead of the most powerful econ…

—p.157 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the destruction of reason

[...] It was doubtless his book The Destruction of Reason which revealed most clearly the destruction of Lukács' own. [...]

—p.152 Reconciliation under Duress (151) by Theodor W. Adorno