Orwell/Adorno

[lorentzen-nicklaus]

jody quoted:

>        ...Scholars like Judith Butler at the University of California
>        had been arguing that 'linguistic transparency' was a
>        dececption, compelling intellectuals to confine themselves
>        to the demotic and hampering the capcity 'to think the world
>        more radically.' Those who took this position- Gayatri Spivak
>        notable among them- tended to cite


                > Thomas Adorno.

         guess he means theodor pynchon ... kfl 


>        Those
>        who opposed it- Noam Chomsky, for example- commonly
>        used Orwell's insistence on plain *contestable* speech as
>        one of their critical resources. Contrasting Adorno and Orwell,
>        Professor Miller came up with some similarities, some anti-
>        thesis and some unexpected synthesis. (194-5)
>
> _Why Orwell Matters_, Christopher Hitchens, Basic Books, 2002.
>