Posts tagged ‘T. W. Adorno’

Adorno and the Weather

Critical Theory in an Era of Climate Change


by / RP 174 (Jul/Aug 2012)

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 [...]


The death of sensuous particulars

Adorno and abstract expressionism


by / RP 076 (Mar/Apr 1996)