annoyingly big ted doesn't seem actually to say what *makes* sib bad not good (it seems almost like a technical judgment, like a carpenter who can't do adequate dovetail joints is a bad carpenter, so a composer who can't do what is a bad composer?)
i also like sibelius and the orinciple that everyone has to pass through the exact same set of portals in the same order to qualify as basically able seems like not a useful idea?
i enjoyed berg flying into a rage at the very idea of r.strauss tho (and also the image of TWA getting a massive wigging from teacher)
― mark s, Monday, 19 August 2019 09:59 (four years ago) link
All sorts of chewy enjoyable detail left hanging and funny. The bit on the Egk, the student who couldn't explain Bach Vs Teleman properly (who nevertheless passed).
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:06 (four years ago) link
It bespeaks a very linear, Western-centric understanding of history, still in thrall to standard Hegelian dialectics. His later emphasis on the 'negative' opened up the field somewhat, but I'm not sure he was fully cognizant of its implications. It really is too much to ask, though, given how influential he's been otherwise – and the same can be said of most thinkers of his stature.
xp
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
agreed yes (tho as this piece is from 1967 it's evidence he never changed significantly in that area)
i very much like the idea of music on the radio playing with a running critical commentary over the top of it
― mark s, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:15 (four years ago) link
Come to think of it, reaction videos are a disappointing approximation of that suggestion.
― pomenitul, Monday, 19 August 2019 10:25 (four years ago) link
Normal week in Brazil, 2019:Olavo Carvalho - the political guru of Jair Bolsonaro - stated that Theodor Adorno was the composer of Beatles’ song. “The Beatles were semi-literate in music, they barely knew how to play the guitar. Who composed their songs was Theodor Adorno” https://t.co/uotpR84LU0— Carolina Alves (@cacrisalves) September 8, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:43 (four years ago) link
Amazing.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:47 (four years ago) link
everyone's got something to hide except me and max horkheimer
― mark s, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
I think he's confusing Hamburg with Frankfurt.
― Boulez, vous couchez avec moi? (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:48 (four years ago) link
Besides, I'm pretty sure it was the other way around: Adorno studied composition under Johann Lennonberg.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 8 September 2019 13:53 (four years ago) link
The ability is lost to close a door quietly and discreetly, yet firmly. Those of cars and refrigerators have to be slammed.— Theodor Adorno (@TheodorAdorno17) December 25, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 28 December 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
I just love finding shit like this pic.twitter.com/JxsUYdW7ZN— julie autumn shoes (@h0mmelette) October 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 6 October 2023 09:48 (eight months ago) link
i do not love it :(
but sometimes i can appreciate the humour of the nauseating void
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 October 2023 09:53 (eight months ago) link
lol look at mark s way upthread knowing what i'm talking about, couldnt be me
― mark s, Friday, 6 October 2023 10:06 (eight months ago) link
literally though https://t.co/Cx9Gw2rFCe pic.twitter.com/7cgILVm0Zk— Critical Theory Working Group (@crit_theory_grp) November 19, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 19 November 2023 09:12 (six months ago) link
yes and (or is it no and? no but?)
I love to hate / hate to love these dorks
― Left, Sunday, 19 November 2023 09:39 (six months ago) link
I call him Ted
― deep wubs and tribral rhythms (Boring, Maryland), Sunday, 19 November 2023 16:42 (six months ago) link
https://www.seagullbooks.org/orpheus-in-the-underworld/
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 21 May 2024 20:27 (four weeks ago) link
I thought this was interesting on Adorno's critique of phenomenology and existentialism: https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/adorno-and-existence/
― default damager (lukas), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 17:52 (three weeks ago) link