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    <body><![CDATA[ideology for dependence:<br/><br/>this is adorno's critique of ideology via an analysis of astrology columns in US newspapers, mainly Los Angeles Times. here, adorno studies the columns as mediators of a society that seeks recognition, mediation, and organization through zodiac signs. zodiac signs...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47044591">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Grumpy ol' Adorno is banished to Southern Cal and writes about astrology columns.<br/><br/>Also some articles on antisemitism which presage Dialectic of Enlightenment.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Who would have thought of comparing astrology and capitalism to authoritarian irrationalism, paranoia and fascist propaganda? <br/>Although, he sometimes misses the fact that there are inadvertently people not completely suckered in to the dream of help from an overarching power-source, yet because...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52869793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting and hard to read set of essays about certain aspects of American culture. It makes my head hurt. I really enjoyed Adorno's critique of astrology and his look at fascist propaganda. Scary.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Occult, irrational, astrology, antisemitism, fascism, and how these artifacts are still prevalent in our society.]]></body>
    
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