Pynchon & dialectics (was GR WvB quote)

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You might also like to check out Theodor Adorno, whose interests in music
and film, critique of modernity, and writings on the "culture industry" as
the handmaiden of capitalism and the imperatives of art and philosophy after
Auschwitz in particular, along with the "negative dialectic" approach,
resonate with Pynchon's work -- even if he wasn't a jazz fan.

Two-Minute version:

http://members.aol.com/eandcw/twa2min.htm

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/adorno/

"Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought,
has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as
masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant
calamity." (_Dialectic of Enlightenment_, 1947)

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on 28/7/04 11:49 PM, Ghetta Life wrote:

> Dialectic!  Yes, more that than Agon.
> 
> Dialectic:  the Hegelian process of change in which a concept or its
> realization passes over into and is preserved and fulfilled by its opposite;
> also : the critical investigation of this process b (1) usually plural but
> singular or plural in construction : development through the stages of
> thesis, antithesis, and synthesis in accordance with the laws of dialectical
> materialism (2) : the investigation of this process (3) : the theoretical
> application of this process especially in the social sciences