Adorno and the Weather: Critical Theory in an Era of Climate Change

Ackbar Abbas ~ RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012), pp. 7–13 ~ 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 […]

The death of sensuous particulars: Adorno and abstract expressionism

Jay Bernstein ~ RP 076 (Mar/Apr 1996) ~ Article

The death of sensuous particulars Adorno and abstract expressionism Jay Bernstein ‘Hell is the denial of the ordinary.’ John Ciardi, The Gift 1. This essay will engage in three distinct tasks simultaneously. first, it will form a light introduction to the philosophical aesthetics of T.W. Adorno. Second, it will reconnoitre a reading of abstract expressionism […]