aw. Re: V-2nd: "Adorned" (p. 414, Picador)

[alice wellintown]

>
> As I said, "Philosophy of Modern Music/Philosophie der neuen Musik" was
> simultaneously published  in 1949. Also otherwise he published - for example as co-author of "The
> Authoritarian Personality" or with his influential texts "On popular music" plus "Composing for the
> Films" (with Hanns Eisler) - in English and was known to psychologists, musicologists, philosophers and
> sociologists in both, the UK (whereto he first went into exile) and the US.

Anyone here read or know people who read Adorno back then?

Actually Pynchon's  novels can be seen as  the most elaborated
artistic translation of the 'Dialectic of
> Enlightenment'-thesis by Adorno and Horkheimer. (Marcuse's theory is pretty much the same, just less complex).

And, we know that Pynchon read Marcuse and Brown and so on ...so
Adorno may not bew his source. Right?

> Adorno also said that one may be part of the (in his case: cultural) elites, but isn't allowed to
> feel elitist. So it's unfair to accuse him of anti-democratic elitism.

Yeah, I get it. Let them eat film. I'll starve.


 It's
> nevertheless true that he did not (and did not want) to understand jazz. The
> reason for this was primarily that he considered "repressive desublimation"
> (Marcuse) as a capitalistic betrayal of the preterit. The influence I was
> suggesting in my mail, me
> sees in Adorno's reading of Stravinsky, which - you cannot deny that - fits
> "V"'s chapter 14 quite well. Might be true that there were similar readings of Stravinsky available
> in the US at the time "V" was in the making ...


Hope you will not run away with Robin; we are about to impale that
chapter on a forking yew.