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doesnot stall of smoke, leather and shaving cream, parculatly ‘women, which is why they, precy, find him irl, For Tim the al frm of human relations the cub that arena of respect founded on serupalousursenpuloures. The pleasures of Such men, ot rather oftheir model which ae seldom equaled in wy fr pone a eve sop eter dm cel ale Sow nen ohne Ts ale sees ste dred esi oes of hom sch soe sping inh enya bas itng cee tve net tan vlc gies hel Fal plese ha, peered wii ier pin he here ps, pride in easing ited es, unformed ae ‘5p pleut win ach gs wy, xh alan Clea mney sl eal rpc tat cv eng te become ane to sch ong Sem and tito 8 ger tered ax ple Heenan nt ov contin, wat finest ceully preset thea ob, masochism, Ath tot of them isd only aed they tly become ety sees of rpenion Thr be, however, & noting other ha, ‘Spread bomcoereity posning fel asthe ey approve {oem of beeen. ln Ono tv srs of stadt oe di ngs he ough gs aod tin nce he ae hough {HS cont aloe, ae simone sonal epaed ih Ge feria. Threw ch ions eet ang arn, ta is way 10 dearonhip, somes plaid iowads sete creme Sich dsctpaon i the tat oft igo, she Ipesthig ned ila afin nnd te egg a {Socal enema Sc, who eee wellngs a ie icine Jn order not to admit tht they ar ke em. Touran ad omoseaiy along gee nits dowel the ajc pes everthing which ot of ls own Hind. The opposes of he Song ran ad the compliant yout ese ln tod which ‘ser unlyed the mae pipe of domination, Tn making al ‘tou exepton, een mpprel blr a ole sp ple cet ely prove ialy mine. as To chem shall no thoughts be eared. ~ The pst if of mig ss we know, annulled. Eater twas the warrant of are, today it is ingles epeience that i declared non-ranafrable and un asualiabl. Anything tat is nor red, canot be counted abd resere, ceases to ei. Not satified with thi, however, ee: ‘don spreads to its own oppose, the life that cannot be dietly ‘cian anything the iver on merely ar thought and recollection Fr thie a pei brie hasbeen invented. Tri called background” snd appear on the goerionnate stan appends, afer se, 3g ‘ed profesion To complete i ication, lifes dragged along on ‘the tmumphalasiomobile ofthe united rican, and even the pss sno longer sue from the presens, whose remumbrance of ‘Sonsgns ica second time ro oblivion, Engh poten. In my cildhood some elderly English ladies with ‘shom my paens kee up rebstions often gave me book presents Fichlyilusvated works forthe young, ao 2 soall green ible bound in moroco leather All were in the language ofthe donors ‘wheter [could ead it one of thm paused wo reflect. The pecalar inacceiblty of the books, with thie glaring pictorsyfes and vignewes, and thet indecipherable text, fled me wih the beef that in genera cbjecs of tha Kind were not books at all, but, dverstmens, peeps fr machines ike those my uncle produced {nhs London factory. Since I came to live im Angl-Saton coun ties and to understand English this awareness tas not been di palled but srngthened. Thee i 3 song by Brahms tos poem by Heys with the line: O Herd du Evighe! Seender marie ‘Selig Inthe most widely used American ein this rendered {5:0 misery, eternity But wo in one were ertany.” The archi, Passionate nouns of the orignal have been tured into catchwords for a hie sng, designed to boosie Maminated in the neon ight switched on by dese words, clare displays ts character a aver- 1. Pal Hee (ytd post and sovlvwrie ponie hy shethose ins who, by dip and» sap separation of spheres of itu, peor the fat of rpractig he Corea ne, shows what it tobe epee of happy seconseroct e duction of Broadway methods on te Rurftndsm, hich Aiered from the former in the Twente only tough fs ley ‘ean ot is ber itndons. The who gppse etal Fun should samt with Weimar, th ‘Bombs on Monte Cat! and Pres Bll hey do not wth fh by dcoering tac coine, cal Figeres tie Flas! spoke more truth under Bierce he ambiguous clerides who sicesly warped her pce te The Heth ao Det ~W sich hing a» pyeho-mal of toity’sprowrpial calre wee posi fhe aioe oe diane of he economy dis bggr a atempesroaieg which places social goal higher than the findanentlly sels sersal oner Ar & Specials in psychology, Be takes over the ansithens of socal and eos scaly, without engi He no more deers in tthe ‘ork of repressive society han the trace ofthe distous mechane isms dha he has himself described. Or eae, he vale, devo of theory and swaying wth prejudice, bersen negating th renin ‘lation of instinct as repression contrary to rey and applauding ‘as sublimation bene to eal. fn this comadicton some thing ofthe Jans-charater of culture exists objectively and no amount of pase for healthy sensuality can with tae a Freud, however, it leads to devalustion of the erica standard that decides the gal of arly: Freud's unenlightened enlightenment plays int te hands of bourgeois lusion. Asa Inte opponent of 1 Rabindaath Tape (6-94 Berga pot and ploper of mpl opel cis Frans Wart Ge-spAuia rot ‘pow bomen pon ypoctny, he sands ambivaleny berween desve forthe open ‘cmmnipatin ofthe oppessed, and apology for open oppresion. ‘Reason i for him mere rupersrerae, ot ~a fil phlosophy ‘mani ~ on account of is pyehologsm, which has penetrated Aeeply enough into the hisorcal moment of truth, but rather becuse he ejects the end, remote to mearing impervious treason, sich alone could prove the means, reason, 10 be reasonable lence, Once this Na been disparaging consigned t the reper: foie of trick for preserving the species, nd so elf exposed sb 2 ‘nnn form of exon, without conieration of hat momen in pleteure which transcends subeenence nate, aii degraded {o raonalaation. Truth is abandoned 1 ratty and people to power He alone who could state utpia in blind somatic plesure, ‘which satisfying the imate neni, intenionles, hata table 2nd valid dea of tat In Fees work, however, the dal hoslty ‘ovarde mind and plessire, whose common roc paychovanayst as given ws the means for discovering, i unintentionally repro= dual, The pce inthe Faure of an Iai where, with the worth- lees wisdom of 2 Iard-boled old gentleman, he guts the com -nexial-trwvelers dita about leaving hewen to the angels and ‘he eparrows! should beset beside the passages the Lcarer where Ihe dams in pious horor the perverse practices of plesireloving society. Those wh fel equal revlon for pleasure and parsdise St indeed es aulted to serve a objec the empty, mechanized Ghlty observable in 20 many who have undergone succes thal to be entered fo the account not only of teins ut Siko of their care, which locates what ie berate. The thers ‘eutcally mach-lauded transference, the breaking of which snot For nothing the cnx of arly tentmens, the aril contrived ssrustion where the sbjet perfor, voluntarily and clmiously, the anaulnent ofthe self which wae one brought about inv tay and benefcilly by rose selfabandonment, is already the pater of the reex-dominaed,follow-my-lesder behaviour ‘whid liquide together wih al itll, the nays who have bead it 1 Alon to Hale's poom Dac, Hin Wiemircan,st The ‘et fn Ii Land, 9729 1 aven ok i er slo hk sou ta ye jesive Jt yeh ol sein see cane ‘Sloe par flo ey tf teas genes ‘Som oly ding ent eg of he pe resto ot oct anh tered Heel een ply ie nme frm nye compan of sacs lia cgelone oman qe otc ‘Su ie’ pfs nal eve Supt ees par Ths tpy sje nt ratte baer, ‘Stimpy ga fc fa somes tn Slatiey capes of uch dig wage, wow die ‘Sento te mde heer ofa nc Pa Slay uence pst eee ny hee ‘Sj cane ye cs manag in ‘contr eed ccd Bind ide al of nye Sain, SAE We les of poe ahowly pen 2h ‘Sietine sn dey wen elec pot ef Shay hrs presen bes toe or Pont Secraicr.~ Nothing is wore uniting for an intellects resolved on practising what wax earlier called plilosophy, than to ‘vith in dncusion, ad one might almow say i argumentation, to be vig. The very wish 0 be righ, down tos sles for of Aogiealrction, 14 an exprenon of that spn of sl preseration vihich philosophy is precisely concerned to break down. I knew Someone who invited all the celebrite in epistemology, since {nd the humanities one after the other, discussed his own system ‘With each of them from fist ols, and when none of tem dared rahe any further arguments agunet its formal, believed his Postion toelly impregnable. Such avery i a work wherever Philosophy hae even a distant rexemblane to the gexttes of per batons Thaw ae founded on the pesappsiion of «weirs leraram, ah pri agreement between minds ale to communicate sith eck then and that on eompleteconformitm. When philoso Bers who are well own co have difcly in keeping sien, Engage in conversation they should ry always to lose the argument, but im ich a way a8 to conviet ther epponent of uniath, The pin should not be to have absolutly corset iefiable water= Tigh cogniions~for thy inevitably bil down to astolies, but Insights which cate the question of heir jstess 0 judge sl ~ ‘Tovny thsi ot, however, t advocate iasonalism the post Iason of abitary tees ured by an neve fat in revelation, ‘but the abolition ofthe distinction between thesis and argue Distetical thinking, from tis point of view, means tha an ag rent should rake onthe pungency ofa thesis anda thesis contain tvitintlf the ules fir esoning, All bg concepts ll Tks and logialaoalary operations tat are nota par of the matter ial all secondary developments not saturate with the xpeince of the objec should be discarded. Ina philosophical tex all the proposions cught to be equally close ro the centre ‘Withou Hegel's ever having sid w epic, hs whole procedure ears witnes to such an intention. Because it acknowedges 20 frst principle, i ough stiely speaking, + know of nothing secondary of dade; and t tafe the concept of maation from formal connecons to the abance of he objet its thereby stempting to overcome the difeence Between the later tnd anexernal thought thar medians, Te init dhe sucess of Such an intention in Hegelian philosopy ar alo those of seth, {hats to sy, the emt of prin plop, the supposition of the subject a6 someting hi in spite of everthing, "pinay One ofthe tasks of dialectic logs ciminate the st aces of elusive system, together withthe ht advoestory gestures of thong. 6 "Hho sickly am all growing thing? ~ Dsl thought opposes teveation in the furir sense tat elses to afr inden ‘hinge hee olton and separates: edegrates ication 35 precely a prouet ofthe univers Thus ets asa coneciv both fo manic fty and tothe unressting and empry de of the par ‘oid mind, which pays fr ie abaolute judgement by loss ofthe Capeince of the inter judged, But the calc snot for this ‘eon what became inthe English Hegelian sehool and, ill more 1 Wie cia dh al Wadndso0trak: ow rts Gong. Tasdone wo him and can never be made good? Isher not concealed in ll persecution by human being, who, with the ile dog ee dhe ‘whole of mature on the wea, the hope to se efced the ast eae of persecution, which eel the portion of manure? Would not the began, driven out ofthe gate of civilization, find sefuge in bs homeland, fred frm ark on earth? ‘Have now petal min, beggar home shall ad As ong as Ihave ben able to thik, Lave derived happiness from the song “Bere the mountain and th dee, dep vale about the evo rabbits who, sealing themselves on the ges, wee shoe down by the hunter, and, on sealing they wee stl alive, made ‘ff in haste, But only ltr di T understand the mora ofthis sease an only enduse in despair and extremity; ie needs absurdity, in fonder nt to fil victim to objetve madnes, One ought t foam the example of dhe to rabbis; when the shot comes, fll down ‘ily, aldend with feghe, collect one's wits and then, if one Sl hat breath show a clean pair of heels The capacity for fear and for happiness ae the sum, the unestied openness 10 ex ‘erence amounting to selfabandonment in which the vanquished fediscovershimele What wouldhappnes be that was ot menured by the immeasurable gic at what i? For the world is deeply alg. He who cautiously dap to by this very act shares in ‘madness, while the eccentric alone would stnd his ground and bid itrave no more. He sone could pase to think on the isor- res of disse the ‘utealty of despa, an realize not merely ‘Bat heel alive bu thas ther li. The rte ofthe dared rabbis redeens, with then, even the unser, whose gull they puroin. Servic to th customer ~The cua induty piouly chim wo be [pide by is carter and to sappy them with what they ak fr Bue whl assiduously dismissing any thought of ova autonony and proclaiming it victims i judges, it outdoes in ts veld urocracy al de excesses of autonomous art. The ele ndry ‘ot so mich adapt othe resctions of customers at couner- ‘ots them, Teds hem in their ates by behaving aif it wer ec i OR itself eastomer. One might suspect that she whol idea of adjust rent which it alka professes to obey, i Meclogyy that people ‘pire more to adapt fo other and tothe whole, he mor hey are Inte, by exaggerated gaat, the pubic out of socal impotnes, ‘on having rae in pomer and so subverting equality. "Masie does the Uistening fr the atne? and he fl perpettes on ttle the odious wick of grownups who, paling something off on children, belabour the rcpiens wah the language it would suit, them cheat fom them, abd present the usually ious eft with the expresions of ip-socking delight tht they wish oe. The culate industry i geared to mimetic represio, co the manip lation of represed impulses o copy ts method isto anticipate the spectators imitation of Suef, s0 making appear as the agree tent aleady exists which i intends wo crete I can do so all dhe beer because in a sablzed system it can indeed count on such fagrennent, avin rather to retest it seals than aeally to produce it Ie product nota imu tal, but 2 model for reaction to aoneistent stl. Hence inthe pictur-howse the Entusne mosis, the idiotic aeery-al the winking flk- Sines even the closeup ofthe sare sem to shout how super! ‘With these wchnigues the cultural apparas asl the spectator sith she onal ores of the expres ai coming toward him at the climax of enema tension. But the tne adopted by every ‘lm i that ofthe teh handing food fo the child she wants to enchant or devour, hile marbling hoebly: Lovely, lovely soup. How you're going to enjoy it!" In at this ktchen-re witcher was averted by Wagner, owe linguini intimacies and mail spices are forever using themeves and he sleo, with a genius ompusion to confess, id bare the whole process in the scene of the Ring’ where Mime ofr Spied the poisoned potion. But ‘tho is wo seike of the monsters ead, now that i bas ise ain Fong, with isu looks, under se lnden te? Gry and grey. ~ Events be conscience cannot help the culture indosey. So objective has it spit Become hat it slaps its own subject in che fee, 20 that they it agente al ae in the now 20d fscompt, by means of mena reservations @ dance deelvesrom the mischief they case, Th admission tat fms disseminate Tdeologies is elf diseminaed ideology. Te i accommodated ‘Mminisoatively ia. the rigid dsincdon between synthe dxy- {reams on one han, veces of refuge rm every i, ‘seape' Sd onthe other well-meaning products that spur us on ro correct “ciel bebeviour, convey a message. Their prom subsumption ‘Sader cape and menage expec the unra of both ype The ‘om for ecapisy the sundae! indignation a supericabiy = frothing but the pfu echo oF the ol-establshed ethos shat fal ‘Rint agit gambling because in the dominant pracice it cannot play the game, [rs aot becaure they sen ther back on washed-out ‘xitence tat expe tims ae 9 repugnant, but beease they do ot do go energy enough, Beease dey are themselves ust a8 Tathelout, beeae the satsfactons they fike coincide withthe Jgominy of realty, of dnial- The dreams have no dream. Just Fife ttincooue heroes do not allow ws #0 forget fora second that they are normal peopl, epe-ast publi faces pd investment lvundr the thin asl of schematically produced fanasy emerges Jn unmisaableculine the skeleton of dinems-onclgy, the whole ‘bliguorybieaechy of va, the canon of the undesrable or the ‘eemplary. ‘There is noting more rascal than exape, nothing tmore fervently espouse 10 big bibs: we ae abducted into dhe ‘Tatnce only to hve the laws of empiri liviegharomered from er untampered by empirical posites of evasion, into out ‘Somciounnes: The escape i full of message. And menage, the ‘ppt, looks what iti the wish to le from fight. Te ees the Telnance to tention. One need only eat exper praising & Callaotd maserpiece fr having, beside other meri, mora serious Ses in he sme tone asa gltorous sere i ete 35 having Dewonalty to, The executive conference could eal decide t0 TRalode in she scape, slong with more expensive ext, an ‘deat the Goetbear call tat man should be noble, helpful and ind Severed from the immanent logic of the work, is subst Tnates, thine becomes ise a pte of mater, wo be provided from sock, therefore at once palpsle apd sll amountng 10.00 more dan reform of remediable abuse, glorified socal work. The favourite theme of such fils is the cebaltaion of drunkards, whose miserable intoricaton they envy. When society, now peti [ing according to anonymous lw, is presented aif good-will ‘tere enough to remove is au i is delended even where its honenly atacked. A kind of Popular Fron of ll igh-shinking tman is fvoked. The practi sist of the message, she angie Alemonsraton of how things cen be improved, joins forces with, the sytem inthe fvon thc a ebjecr encompasing the whole of sotery, such at dee nota preset exist, can put evening Fhe if only everyone wll at down roger and make up their Inds about the oot of the souble Ic very apretable tobe able ths to prove one's eapactis, Mesage becomes scape: he who fet about cleaning up the hose he lives in energetically enough, Forgets ee foundation i alton. Exape ia earnest, an image tof teruson from te woe, down tts formal constiuents could ecome a aesage without expresing one, indeed just because of ffs unbending sceicam towards pricia propos Wolf as rondmotar. ~The seongest agument inthe anal of apologise forthe cinema isthe eudest 1 mase-consumption ‘They del this date medium ofthe clare indy, pop- ara Thee independence of he norms ofthe autonomous Work is supposed co relieve films of sett responsbiliy, such stan- Alards proving in thie case rectionary, asta all intentions to noble fle aisicaly do indeed look ary, fib elevated, out ‘tleeping withthe form impos forthe connoisseur, The more Dretesions a il baer a the more bogus it becomes, The ro= gon of the cinema can point his ad, moreover, as rics of fn inwardness now become biseh, can pice themslies, with ther couse cutwand Kitch, a the wexrgerde IF one is once tka onto thi ground, such agament, frie with technial experience and professional fuency, become almost iesisble. The Fm soc mass art but tely manipulated o deceive he masse? But through the market the wises of the public are cenclely turrets cllecive production by ielf guarantees the film's cok Tecive nature; ony someone out of ouch with elity could suspect its produces of bengal singlets; mst nk tent, to bese, but where the nessa git do come togeter, then, despite all the imitations of the vem, socees is possible. The mas tte sv which the film compli ot tat of the masses themselves br foited om them? Butt alk ofa diferent mass taste than dat 1which she mises scully displ is aberd, and everything that Tas ever been called folk art has alway reflected domination. Only inthe competent adsptation of production t given needs, notin frentation to an utopian audenc, can the unformulted general Sil by ths logs, be given form. The fm fll fying stereo- ‘ype? Du the streoype ofthe enece of folk at fairytales, tres falar ith Se rescuing prince and the devi as te lm with {he hero andthe wllsn and even the baka cue tat divides the world into good sd evil the fm has in common withthe retest eyes, which have the tepmodier dance to death in Fedshot ron shoe ‘Al sh could be answered only by reecing on the basic con cepts presupposed bythe apologists. Bad fms cant be pt down {oincompetncr the most ited ate broken by the busing set-up, Su tht the untleted flock 10 ie eto the anity between Tying and the swindler The mindless ix objective; improved personne could not found a folk at Its concept arose out of Sratan eitinship or an economy of simple cmamoditypro- ‘econ Such lations and the characters expressing them ae those of mater and servan, gainers and lorerm but ian median, ot wholly objected frm. OF course they are no less seared With Clas inaction than late industrial society, but her members are ‘not yet encompassed bythe ttl sraerre, which Kt reluces the individual subjects to mere moments, inorder then to unite them, impotent and discret in the colecive. Tht thee is no longer 4 folk docs not mean, However, asthe Romans propagated, that ‘he mae ae worse, Rae, iis pecely in the new radially fllerated form of society that the untrath of the old fest being revealed, The very tit which the calture industry claims asthe Fentage of fl art, becom, through the sndstry tel, suspect ‘The film hae a retroactive ers psi horor brings to Tigh in the fay-ale wha aay served ijt, and shows dimly ‘in the seprimanded misteants the faces of tone whom integeal society condemns and to coadern whom has fom the fast been ‘he ream of ciliation, For this enon the demic of ndvidal- starts nojunieason for oe that deport ituelfas fie subjeceand ite ache reaeons were natural whereas is teal subject isthe ‘yndeate, unconscious cen, of 2 few big fms, Even the ‘masts ive ae cstomers an nluence on the clnema, it remains as ‘otract the boxcofie resume which have replaced dcriminsting 204 apple: the mere choice berween Yes and Noto what is ofr hiner part ofthe daproporton Between concentrate power Sd dapersed impotence, The fat, Sally, that he raking of = Film numerous exper and also simple echncians, have as, 20 ‘more uarantes ts humanity than decisions by qualified sSentc ‘visor boars nme that of bombs nd pson a5 "The aed wc about the Fm as an art doubles efits hacks wishing to recommend themselves but the conscious appeal to ‘sively, co the servant’ cbuuenes tht has Jong since permeated the thoughts ofthe master is eqully worthless. The fl, which {ody aac il inscapably eo tena iit were 2 prt of therm, ‘sat the sme time remotes ofl fom their human destiny, which tight be redized fom one day 19 the next; and apologetics fori fe sutsined by rstence fo thinking this antinomy. That the people who make fms are in no way schemers ino counter Erpunent. ‘The obectve spit of manipulation art elf in ‘experiential roles, appraisals of the station, technical teria ‘conomicily inevitable eauation, che whole specie weight of ‘he industrial apparatus, without any special censorship being needed, and even ifthe maces were sked they would rect back ‘he ubiquity of the system. The producers no more function 36 subjects than do dee workers and consumers, but merely 35 com ponents in + slereulting machinery. The Hegelan-sounding Dreep, however, that maar should vfect te real tate of the fae and no tht of carping inelcrasy ix urpation. The fim’ opposson, aan allecrpasingiealogy, tothe bjective ‘nteret of mankind its iterlcement with the satus quo of proft- ‘motivation, fad contciene and deen can Be conchavely demon rated. No appeal to an auslly extent sate of consciousness ould ever have the right to veto insighe which tramcended thie tte of consioumess by disering ir contradiction t self and to objective conlens, It posible that the Geran Fascist profesor wae right and that el flisongs already lived on carl “res that had unk down fom the ppersratum. Not for non eal flat fasured and, ke te lm, aot ‘organic’. But between the od injstiog in whore voice lament is audible even where ie lores tsa and abenason procaiming self topeteress, insidiously creating an appearance of human closeness with loud- speakers and adversng pyeholog, is 2 diference equal to that Teeween the mother telling her child 0 allay it terror of demons, 25the frye in which dhe good are ewarded andthe bd punished, snd he nena product which forces the orice ofeach and every ‘word onder, in every county, siden and creteingy into ‘he audiences yes and eat, in der tach ther nem and more thoroughly, theo fear Te faye dreams, appealing so eagerly to the child in the man, are nothing other than regresion organized by total enighenmens and where they pat the onlooker most confidentially onthe shoul they most thoroughly bewsy him. Immeiacy, the poplar community coneoted by Bm, amounts to mediation withoat rede, relucing men and eveything human so peseay to tings, that their onto wo things, ined he spell of reiaton el somes imperepubl. The fm has succeeded ‘in tasformingsubjecs so indsinguisably ito soil functions that thos whellyencompaied, no longer aware of ay eoafice, enjoy ther own dehumanszation a something human, asthe jy ‘of warm, The total intersonnecednes of the clare industry, ‘miting nothings one wih otal socal elsion. Which is why emakes such ight work ofeounter-atgumen. Expensive production ~ Sociey is integra even before it under foe totaltarian rule, Ie onganantion ano embraces those at war sith t by co-ordinating tel consciousness its own, Even those Intell who have alse poltel arguments against Bourgeois ideology at th Sngerp, undergo » process of standardization which ~ despite rly conaating conten, through readiness on their pat to accommodate themselves ~ approximates them te the prevalent menaity tothe exet sha the substance of their view ont bacomesinctesngly incidental, dependent merely on thie Preference or the ssenment of their own chances. What they Ebjecvely fancy radial, Belongs objecvely 20 enirely 10 the omparmen inthe pattern seerved for the ike, that radi [S debued to abate pretig,legiination for thowe who now ‘what an inellecial nowy hart be forse what against. The food things dey ot for have long since heen us as acepted umber just a ett inthe hierarchy of vale jst fied, {ethos of stadent Femi. While they ineigh against of ich, their views, lke dus children, are sllowed to partake 6 only of preselected nutstion, clichés agit eid The habia ‘ons of such young babemans zee chet intellect house- hold. On the walls the deeepivly ffl colour reproductions ‘of famous Van Gogh ike the Sunflowers ore Cafe x Are',on the bookshelf the bole-down social and paycho-nayss anda Title sexology for liberines with iibitons, Added 10 this the Random Howe edition of Proust ~ Scot Moncis tasaion deserved a beter te, eatpice excanvty eve in is appearance, the compactly economical “omnibus shape, » mockery of the Suthor whose every sentence pot out of acon some resved pinion, while now asa prize-winning homoseral he ila smiar ‘eed for youth do the books abovt forest animals and dhe Nor Pole expedition in the German home. Abo the gramophone with the Linead-canata of some saat sii deeply concerned with tally sion together withthe daly marvlled-ar Oulshoma folklore and few sy jane zecords that make you fel at once collective, audacious and comfortable. Every opinion ears the Spprbasion of nds, every argument is Known by them before- band. That all altura produc even non-conformist ones, have teen incorporated lato the dissuton-mechanisms of large-scale capital tht in the most developed country a produc hat doc not ‘ear the inprimaar of mate production can acrely tech 4 seade, viewer, sen a al, denies deviaionary longings thei ‘abject mater in advance, Even Kafka ie becoming a iar the ‘let ari. The intelectne themselves ae aleady 20 esvly ‘omit 1 what is endorsed in tse talated phere, tht they to longer dete anything tat does not carry the highbrow tg ‘Ambion aime slely at experiae in the acepted stockade, ‘iting the comet slogan. The outideihnes of the inate isan illusion, they are merely bding thir tne. To te ther 25 ‘omg ft rcs ther oo high they mask mediocre faces with Thorimmed spectacles btckening "blancs, though with phi flat lenses, solely in order to beter thelr in their own eyes nd inthe general racrace They are alegady jue Uike thereat. Phe fubjecive precondition of opposiinn,unco-ordinaed judgement Fr dying ou, while ts geeulstion continue tobe perorted a8 group rial Stain only needs to lear his hoe and they throw Katia and Van Gogh onthe risen.

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