Apes with Grapes

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Tue Jul 9 18:47:27 PDT 2002


On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, joanna bujes wrote:


> At 02:06 AM 07/09/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >I'm away from my Adorno texts, so I'm not sure about this, but I think he
> >says something in Min Mor about the sadness in the faces of apes, as if in
> >sorrow that they're not human.
>
> God, what bullshit!

Sure, but Adorno's early work has plenty of such anthropomorphisms. They disappear in the 1950s texts, interestingly. Remember, the 1940s = no theory of neuroscience, no DNA, the raw beginnings of nuclear physics, and cars with no air conditioning. Barbarism, utter barbarism!

-- Dennis



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