Art After Auschwitz -- it is possible enfin~!

“The more total society becomes, the greater the reification of the mind and the more paradoxical its effort to escape reification on its own. Even the most extreme consciousness of doom threatens to degenerate into idle chatter. Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.” (Adrorno, Prisms, 34)

Oh yeah?
Well that’s just like your opinion, man.

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Welcome to the twentyfirst century.

Is there some kind of competition going on round here to see who can achieve the highest level of senselessness?

You’re figuring this out now? At the very end of it?

Better late than never, me spose.