Status Updates From Negative Dialectics

Basically, propositional logic obscures inter-term relations and leads to horrible paradoxes and dialectic. Looking at inter-term relations, there is a realization that there is no dialectics of the entity: the "entities" are search indexes. What happens when two search indexes are mutually searched for, as in Stoic logic? Nihility, basically, against which dialectics is a cowardly defense.

Some kind of term logic does away with dialectics, with its presumption of otherness as negativity. "This is that" means "this" is other, but it's not really meaningful by itself, it's void of meaning. [This] is that means that THIS is picked as one out of many things which THAT could have been. This is [that] means that THAT is picked from many possible things a THIS could be.

"To negate a negation does not bring about its reversal; it proves, rather, that the negation was not negative enough" Ergo, contrariety and rejection of LEM and the rejection of the preponderance of Stoic and propositional logic. But in this book of course nothing exists but stoic logic and Hegel, and it requires a new dialectics to come up with a notion of contrariety.

"Just as freedom can only come to be real through coercive civilization too". What if someone said: Just as women's liberation can only come through coercive sex? Who would trust it?

Repetitive but brilliant: said pretty much everything I would say of Heidegger, with some extra.

Will be finished by the end of the night. The last section reflecting 12-tone music and the reflections of Auschwitz after an immense culmination of Hegelian-Marxist analyses has been the only theory writing that has made me break out in tears...

Incredible bashing and further formulations of Kant's notion of Freedom. Finally getting back into it with class after detour into dialectic of enlightenment excerpts, which is way better after reading ND btw

I def recommend Redmond’s personal translation of this book to help you if you decide to jump into this

Mind-numbing shit. Materialism Imageless aphorism is fucking annoying anti-sovietism but I do believe there to be insights in the book good for the general self-criticism of the ongoing socialist movement

Jameson book helping a lot. Section on Dialectics is far better than anything else preceding it. Adorno's genius finally comes through for me and I understand those who claim this work to be the most 'advanced' conception of dialectics. I do cringe everytime he critiques the 'East.'

😵‍💫 seminar today helped at least

Ontological need = Adorno hates hates hates Heidegger... I'm dizzy reading this

Most difficult book I've read to date. Understood probably ~50% of what this mofo said in this longass introduction and I consider myself with a not-bad foundation on the Frankfurt School and the general philosophy they interact with. Hopefully, those who recommended it to me with their lives don't disappoint and I am doing it for a seminar, so we shall see