On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:17 AM, Angelus Novus wrote:
> "Particularly today, because decisive activity is cut
> off, and because on the other hand, for reasons which
> I have suggested often enough, thought itself is
> paralyzed, powerless and random praxis quite easily
> becomes a substitute for that which does not occur.
> And the deeper one knows that it isn't actually true
> praxis, all the more bitterly and passionately does
> consciousness adhere to such a praxis." - T.W. Adorno,
> Vorlesung über Negative Dialektik (my translation)
Gotta love Teddy (and, by the way, his string quartets are pretty good!). A perfect critique of activistism in a short paragraph.
Doug