"To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places...To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away and never, never, to forget." ~ Arundhati Roy
Sunday, 8 December 2024
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The final aphorism in Theodor W. Adorno's Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life is:
“Perspectives must be fashioned that displace and estrange the world, reveal it to be, with its rifts and crevices, as indigent and distorted as it will appear one day in the messianic light”.
This aphorism encapsulates the method of the entire book. It conveys Adorno's message that any image of a coherent society is ideological, as long as even one person is in despair.
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