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a world congealed into products project/panopticon

[...] The occultist draws the ultimate conclusion from the fetish-character of commodities: menacingly objectified labor assails him on all sides from demonically grimacing objects. What has been forgotten in a world congealed into products, the fact that it has been produced by men, is split off a…

—p.173 The Stars Down to Earth Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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the regression in consciousness

The tendency to occultism is a symptom of the regression in consciousness. This has lost the power to think the unconditional and to endure the conditional. Instead of defining both, in their unity and difference, by conceptual labor, it mixes them indiscriminately. The unconditional becomes fact, …

—p.172 Theses Against Occultism (172) by Theodor W. Adorno
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a little that is frankly silly

[...] there is much that is debatable, and a little that is frankly silly, in Adorno's work [...]

—p.2 Introduction: Adorno and Authoritarian Irrationalism (1) by Stephen Crook
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