You're gonna lose that girl
While nearly everything I've read about him, never actually having read the dude directly, has made me think of Adorno as one uptight nut with whom I would generally not agree (and a friend once suggested: "think of Adorno as two giant jowls wiggling in disapproval of most everything. I find that this explains a lot."), I am highly intrigued by the attribution to him of the thought that "the fragment that hints at a totality but never aims to achieve it is considered the only viable alternative", since it puts me in mind of various things said by such as Yoshida Kenko and Junichiro Tanizaki.
Comments
on 2005-07-08 11:09:09.0, dave zacuto commented:
I think we both know who gave Adorno that tattoo.
and, further, on 2005-07-08 11:11:09.0, ben wolfson commented:
Was it OTIS REDDING?
and, further, on 2005-07-08 13:04:59.0, Joe O commented:
This book said that it was the gothic period that first valued the fragment in western art. I remembered this statement because it seemed so improbable, but I guess he could be right.
I did a google search to find the statement and oddly this page talks about Adorno too.
The gothic is pretty far from japanese aesthetics though.
and, further, on 2005-07-08 13:57:31.0, ben wolfson commented:
That book has the title of a book I should read.
and, further, on 2005-07-09 12:03:32.0, dave zacuto commented:
I don't think we can count him out just yet; he was about to give Adorno all his money shortly before the pigmentation took place.