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Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer's "The Dialectic of Enlightenment" (Part 1/2)

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Enlightenment and Memesus

In the world of memesus, there was then the possibility to undo who you are. It was a moment of giving up yourself to become something else. Whereas in the ageo conformity that we see the roots of in myth and religion, what we see here is not giving up oneself, but rather projecting oneself on to others. In this logic, or in this world of enlightenment, many zones are reduced to this operation of conformity That just regresses to a kind of repetition which can certainly be applied to art as well. But while art hot houses this potential, at the same time, any possibility that it risks transgressing the system,. its going to be exercised, conjured away or pur

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