Contributor Archive: Ackbar Abbas
Adorno and the Weather
Critical Theory in an Era of Climate Change
by Ackbar Abbas / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
In Beckett’s Endgame – about which Adorno wrote an important essay – nature is in ruins (‘corpsed’, as Clov describes it), yet the weather is still important.* The pathetic story that Hamm tells (and he has to bribe Nagg to listen) about a man crawling to him on his belly to ask for help on one Christmas [...]
Adorno and the Weather
Critical Theory in an Era of Climate Change
by Ackbar Abbas / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012) / Article
In Beckett’s Endgame – about which Adorno wrote an important essay – nature is in ruins (‘corpsed’, as Clov describes it), yet the weather is still important.* The pathetic story that Hamm tells (and he has to bribe Nagg to listen) about a man crawling to him on his belly to ask for help on one Christmas [...]
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