http://www.metafilter.com/tags/adorno Posts tagged with 'adorno' at MetaFilter. Tue, 30 May 2006 08:49:56 -0800 Tue, 30 May 2006 08:49:56 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/51942/On%2Dpopular%2Dmusic "The theories and opinions of the German philosopher <a href="http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/">Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno</a> (1903-1969) on popular music and the culture industry are still highly influential in the domain of media studies. His thoughts about these subjects were very <a href="http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/A/adorno_aesthetic.html">critical</a>, pessimistic even. Adorno analysed the workings of the culture industry in terms of '<a href="http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/SWA/On_popular_music_1.shtml">standardization</a>' and used the concept of '<a href="http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/SWA/Culture_industry_1.shtml">pseudo-individualization</a>' to describe its effects on the listeners. tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.51942 Tue, 30 May 2006 08:49:56 -0800 Adorno CulturalCriticism LiteraryTheory Philosophy PopStudies PopularMusic j-urb http://www.metafilter.com/37026/The%2DAutodidact%2DProject%2Dand%2DSelected%2DQuotations%2DTherefrom <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynlasch.html" title="When jobs consist of little more than meaningless motions, and when social routines, formerly dignified as ritual, degenerate into role playing, the worker—whether he toils on an assembly line or holds down a high-paying job in a large bureaucracy—seeks to escape from the resulting sense of inauthenticity by creating an ironic distance from his daily routine.">"Ironic Detachment as an Escape from Routine" by Christopher Lasch</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/comparedtowhat.html" title="The President, he's got his war Folks don't know just what it's for Nobody gives us rhyme or reason Have one doubt, they call it treason We're chicken-feathers, all without one gut (God damn it!) Tryin' to make it real — compared to what? (Sock it to me, now)">Compared to What by Eugene McDaniels as performed by Les McCann</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/cynicslo.html" title="...Cynicism is enlightened false consciousness. It is that modernized, unhappy consciousness, on which enlightenment has labored both successfully and in vain. It has learned its lessons in enlightenment, but it has not, and probably was not able to, put them into practice. Well-off and miserable at the same time, this consciousness no longer feels affected by any critique of ideology; its falseness is already reflexively buffered.">What Is Cynical Reason? Peter Sloterdijk Explains</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/rilke1.html" title="For our task is to stamp this provisional, perishing earth into ourselves so deeply, so painfully and passionately, that its being may rise again, ''invisibly'', in us. We are the bees of the Invisible.">Rainer Maria Rilke on Being and the Transitory</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/einstn1.html" title="Exaggerated respect for athletics, an excess of coarse impressions which the complications of life through the technical discoveries of recent years has brought with it, the increased severity of the struggle for existence due to the economic crisis, the brutalization of political life--all these factors are hostile to the ripening of the character and the desire for real culture, and stamp our age as barbarous, materialistic, and superficial.">Albert Einstein on Intellectuals and the Masses, Specialization and the Division of Labor, and the Quality of Life</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/adorno2.html" title="The corny exoticism of such decorative world views as the astonishingly consumable Zen Buddhist one casts light upon today's restorative philosophies.">T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism</a> <strong>;</strong> <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/other/FS1.html" title="INDIAN 1: Well, I think it’s about time . . . the way the corn’s been growing for the last two or three generations . . .INDIAN 2: Look at that herd of Buffalo. They’re ready. INDIAN 1: Everything’s living the Great Spirit’s way. In harmony. INDIAN 2: He’ll be here soon. INDIAN 1: The true white brother’s coming home. Remember what the Great Spirit said? If we did what we were supposed to do and lived according to the plan? White brother would finish his work in the East and come back to us. INDIAN 2: It’ll be nice to have the family together again. CONQUISTADOR 1: Buenos Dios, amigos!">Temporarily Humboldt County</a> and <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/quote/seinfeld1.html" title="ELAINE: Maybe she's there in spirit. How about that? GEORGE: If you're a spirit, and you can travel to other dimensions and galaxies, and find out the mysteries of the universe, you think she's going to want to hang around Drexler's funeral home on Ocean Parkway? ELAINE: George, I met this woman! She is not traveling to any other dimensions. GEORGE: You know how easy it is for dead people to travel? It's not like getting on a bus. One second. It's all mental.">Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld</a>--just a taste of <a href="http://www.autodidactproject.org/sitemap.html" title="Are you an autodidact, a self-educated person? Did you learn most of what matters to you on your own, even if you went to college? Are you a disgruntled student, teacher, or professor, dissatisfied with the knowledge industry and the bureaucratization of intellect? Are you concerned about the role of the intellect not just as a form of specialized professionalism but as equipment for living? Are you interested in the intellectual life of society as a whole, in its informal and extra-institutional aspects as much as in its formal institutions? Do you strive to make yourself and people around you more conscious and critical thinkers? How do you locate yourself in the universe of knowledge? If any of these questions strike a chord in you, you too may wish to benefit from the Autodidact Project.">The Autodidact Project</a> by Ralph Dumain <small>(Librarian-Archivist-Information Specialist Researcher-Scholar)</small> Can you dig it? tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.37026 Tue, 16 Nov 2004 22:56:31 -0800 adorno autodidact education einstein essay essays humbolt lasch lesmccann mccann quotes rilke selftaught sloterdijk y2karl http://www.metafilter.com/23775/Postmodern%2DInfotainment%2DI%2DRrivolously%2DLink%2DYou%2DDecide <a href="http://www.ebbflux.com/postmodern/speak.html" title="First, you need to remember that plainly expressed language is out of the question. It is too realist, modernist and obvious. Postmodern language requires that one uses play, parody and indeterminacy as critical techniques to point this out. Often this is quite a difficult requirement, so obscurity is a well-acknowledged substitute.">How to Speak and Write Postmodern</a>. Here is <a href="http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/~jmu2m/contemporary.literature.32:1.html#1" title="A good deal of the confusion that has accompanied the use of this term in recent years might be attributed to the failure to acknowledge that there have already been two generations of the postmodern and that, in many ways, the two have little in common. ">an etymology of the word postmodern</a>--it begins with Walter Toynbee. Who'd athunk? All of this comes from <a href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html" title="the force is with you, young skywalker... This is CNN">Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought</a> . The names lead not to essays but thorough links pages, like <a href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/cogsci.html#wittgenstein" title="Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.">Ludwig Wittgenstein</a> or <a href="http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html#husserl" title="If the world were constructed of two, so to speak, equal spheres of reality - nature and spirit - neither with a preferential position methodologically and factually, the situation would be different. But only nature can be handled as a self-contained world; only natural science can with complete consistency abstract from all that is spirit and consider nature purely as nature.">Edmund Husserl</a>. All the usual suspects are here--your Adorno, Baudrillard and the infamous Frankfurt School. <small><small><small>*spooky ghost voice* <i><b>Whoo-oo-oo! </b></i>*/spooky ghost voice*</small></small></small> Well, there is Edward Said, but that one confuses me--I mean I read Edmund Husserl, and he, sir, is no Edmund Husserl. He actually makes sense. Which is more than I can say for Edmund Husserl. And it's all one huge page so you can scroll on down. Even I can do that. <i>Hope I didn't brain my damage!</i> To trump the smarty-pants who's going to link the Postmodernism Generator, I'm upping the ante--here's your <a href="http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/cgi-bin/t.cgi?field=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.elsewhere.org%2Fcgi-bin%2Fpostmodern%2F" title="If one examines poststructural patriarchialist theory, one is gunna be faced with a choice: either reject semioticist capitalism or conclude that crazy sexuality is gunna be used to entrench sexism, given that crazy Lyotard's analysis of poststructural patriarchialist theory gunna be valid. Hey man, This time we're gonna do it my way!">Postmodern Mr. T</a>.<br>&#0160;&#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &#0160; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <i>Hey man, This time we're gonna do it my way!</i> tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.23775 Fri, 21 Feb 2003 16:48:01 -0800 adorno baudrillard brokenlink brokenlinks edmundhusserl edwardsaid frankfurt ludwigwittgenstein postmodern postmodernism y2karl