Status Updates From Negative Dialectics

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