Why the customer is always right: Debord's spectacle as the rationalisation of mimesis
I once knew a monster who said she could not read Proust because there were no figures in Proust with whom she could identify. Theodor W. Adorno With this seemingly off-the-cuff anecdote, Adorno, lecturing on the topic of aesthetics in 1958, gave illustration to a critique of a certain kind of aesthetic reception, or against […]