Revisiting 20 years of Trinkets part 7
Here was a curio – a blogpost filler from September 2005 – a negative review of Critique of Exotica by Narcus Breem in 2001, with my reply at…
Tag: Adorno
Beatles and Stones Go Asia
This was done as a sampler almost a year back – the longer version gets more into the Civil Rights Movement as well as the work of Theodor…
Show Neon Fashion
Since this weblog will be 20 years old in August, some of it will be selectively recycled into pulp, even as much of it was already pulp at…
what do you think of writing books?
. What do you expect of a book? A book on culture and critical theory would generally assume a certain readership, but an author-writes for what they can…
Happy birthday Teddy Adorno 128 years
Big Day – happy birthday Theodor Adorno.… and the tragedy of architecture that leads to warmongering warbucks… The algebra of need: = the culture industry + tourist rubbern…
If we had time to study, we might study this…
I was asked yesterday how I might explain the attraction of current right wing ideas and autocracy…: >> How do you explain the attraction of current right wing…
Adorno on youth and discipline – whats not to love here
“There is absolutely no question that productive thinking today can take the form only of one that works through breaks and fractures, whereas any thinking which is simply…
Notes on Beuret.
An annotation of someone’s article abstract is probably a bit unfair. I’ve managed some awful ones myself. Sigh. Here I was, stuck in a long meeting, listening to…
Depression (not mine, ours)
Depression: I am no expert on depression, at all, but I also note that over the last two decades it has become a more visible topic of discussion…
Über Jazz
I’ve argued (in Pantomime Terror) that Adorno wrote ‘Über Jazz’ as a way to talk about Nazi marching music. People forget that – even though by then he…
Pantomime Terror and Global South Asia on Screen
Cheap paperback stocking stuffers… – though I wonder if 1 left in stock contradicts that whole value-scarcity thing. Pretty sure there is more than one.
La sexualidad y reproducción en la Prehistoria reciente de Iberia
Una de las mayores dificultades a la hora de estudiarla se debe a la falta de documentación, aun así, diferentes corrientes historiográficas han hecho estudios exhaustivos sobre dicha…
El poder de la moda
La ropa, los adornos y los complementos, han sido una forma de exteriorizar el estatus dentro de la mayor parte de las sociedades durante la inmensa mayoría de…
#men, too?
Die #MeToo-Debatte hat einmal mehr gezeigt: Es wäre höchste Zeit, dass die Männer, die das Verhalten der Weinsteins, Trumps etc. beschämend finden, selbst sagen, was sie von sich…
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it?
What is science in Social Science and what has the history of Philosophy had to say about it? Well, so glad you asked – I can talk for…
Pantomime Terror
This book is about storytelling and music video – well, also politics and terror, performance and television. HUTNYK_PANTOMIME TERROR The book tunes into music in three acts. I…
Training Adorno
Is it mean to advise someone wanting to write on sneakers to go and read Adorno? On trainers/sneakers, surely Adorno would be asking what is so secretive about…
Thesis 11 on Adorno
Just catching up on Thesis 11 after many years, (ht Trevor Hogan). Articles: Antinomies of culture and critique of modernity: Evaluating György Márkus’s theory of culture from the…
Miniaturization is trinketization.
This looks great and would have been a good thing to attend, but my diary window – and budget – is far too small: *Small Interventions: Studies in…