Angelus Novus’ Eyesight: On Benjamin’s Aesthetic Mysticism
Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus design is used by Benjamin as a metaphor to describe the link between progress and catastrophe.
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Adorno on Pleasure, 2: Purpose and Play
In part 1, we saw Adorno reject the bourgeois disgust with sexuality and instinctual urges through his engagement with Freud Continue reading
Adorno on Pleasure, 1: The Critique of Psychoanalysis
Theodor Adorno, the Arch-curmudgeon of the Frankfurt School of Critical theory, devotes a brief but substantial section of his Minima Continue reading
