"the entire private domain is being engulfed by a mysterious activity that bears all the features of commercial life without there being actually any business to transact.…soon there is no relationship that is not seen as a ‘connection’."
— #Adorno. #MinimaMoralia, 1951), Part 1, Sec 3. #quotesky
"If today the [human] subject is vanishing, aphorisms take upon themselves the duty “to consider the evanescent itself as essential”."
— #Adorno, Minima Moralia: Reflections On A Damaged Life (1951), "Dedication," riffing on #Hegel.
#Aphorism #LiteraryFragment #MinimaMoralia #booksky #quotesky
Diary, 9 -10 March, 2026
#Decline #Civilisation #Illiteracy #Postbox #Art #Letters #TheodorAdorno #Aphorisms #MinimaMoralia #German #EFNJephcott #Diary #Photograph #Writing #Lapidary #Antithesis
night bookstore dive, with companion spirits #WalterBenjamin, #Kerouac (on E. 7th St NYC near my old apt), and #WilliamBurroughs:
#IainSinclair; #SimoneWeil; #EdwardSoja; #Seneca; #ChantalMouffe; #Horace #Lenin #WhatIsToBeDone; #EdmondJabès #HannahArendt; #Adorno #MinimaMoralia.
#booksky #Shelfie
was hat Adorno nochmal zu LED-Kerzen aus Echtwachs geschrieben #minimamoralia
Emil Cioran no ho hauria expressat millor.
#MinimaMoralia
After reading "Minima Moralia" and '"the Age of Diagnosis", I feel the urge to read something lighter.
Paging P.G. Wodehouse...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blandings_Castle_an...
#Books #MinimaMoralia #TheAgeOfDiagnosis #BlandingsCastle #PGWodehouse
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A few weeks ago, I picked up Theodor Adorno's "Minima Moralia", started it, but was then distracted, and so put it aside.
Being distracted from Adorno is easily explicable, as I don't think even his admirers would describe him as an easy read.
Nevertheless, I have struggled through some […]
"Die in Formen der freien, distanzierten, desinteressierten Beurteilung Denkenden waren unfähig, in jene Formen die Erfahrung der Gewalt mit aufzunehmen, welche real solches Denken außer Kraft setzt. Die fast unlösbare Aufgabe besteht darin, ..."
Theodor W. #Adorno, #MinimaMoralia.
Daily Adorno 12
#dailyadorno #adorno #criticaltheory #kritischetheorie #frankfurtschool #philosophy #aphorisms #minimamoralia
Daily Adorno 2
#dailyadorno #adorno #criticaltheory #kritischetheorie #frankfurtschool #philosophy #minimamoralia #aphorisms
You are loved, solely where you may show yourself as weak, without provoking strength / Geliebt wirst du einzig, wo du schwach dich zeigen darfst, ohne Stärke zu provozieren #Adorno #MinimaMoralia, Aphorism 122
"Fremdwörter sind die Juden der Sprache" #MinimaMoralia
#Adorno, Aphorismus 72
Bin dankbar, dass ich früh aufgrund brografischer Besonderheiten - die entsprechenden Szenen waren zeitlich & örtlich verfügbar - Zugang zu diesem außergewöhnlichen Denker gefunden habe 🙏 Ich wäre sonst eine andere 💙
Tough Baby: "A certain gesture of manliness, be it one’s own, be it that of another, deserves mistrust. It expresses independence, surety of the power of command, the silent conspiracy of all men with each other ..." #MinimaMoralia #Adorno, Aphorism 24/1
"The archetype for this is the good looking man in a smoking jacket, who enters his bachelor’s pad alone one late evening, turns on the indirect lighting, and pours a whisky-soda:" #MinimaMoralia #Adorno, Aphorism 24/2
"the carefully recorded fizzing of the mineral water says what the arrogant mouth does not; that he despises whatever does not smell of smoke, leather and shaving cream – above all, women, and for that very reason they swarm all over him #MinimaMoralia #Adorno, Aphorism 24/3
Minima Moralia, Aphorism 5, German
And I have lived and suffered in it. At the end of aphorism 5, he wrote: "All of the playing along, all of the humanity of interaction and participation is the mere mask of the tacit acceptance of inhumanity" … My answer/hope, more than 50 years ago, in the photo below 💙 #MinimaMoralia #Adorno
Minima Moralia, book after using it for 50 years
This book has been with me for more than 50 years. When I first tried to read it, I bravely tried to understand unfamiliar terms with the help of a dictionary. This is what it looks like today 🤪 #MinimaMoralia #Adorno
Retweetet it to my own account so those interested may get access to the English full text of #MinimaMoralia #Adorno
Book cover of "Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life" by Theodor Adorno Printed by Verso Books
I need to know... Will my Inattentive-type ADHD brain be able to comprehend Adorno, or will I have to end up rereading each section five times and STILL not know wtf I just read? #FrankfurtSchool #MinimaMoralia
