Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. |
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane. |
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. |
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. |
Culture is only true when implicitly critical, and the mind which forgets this revenges itself in the critics it breeds. Criticism is an indispensable element of culture. |
Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality. |
The lie has long since lost its honest function of misrepresenting reality. Nobody believes anybody, everyone is in the know. Lies are told only to convey to someone that one has no need either of him or his good opinion. |
There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence. |