‘[There is a] witch hunt against expression ... Although inwardness, even in Kant, implied
a protest against the social order heteronomously imposed upon its subjects, it
was from the beginning marked by an indifference to this order, a readiness to
leave things as they are and obey. This accorded with the origin of inwardness
in the labor process: Inwardness served to cultivate an anthropological type
that would dutifully, quasi-voluntarily, perform the wage labour required by
the new mode of production necessitated by the relations of production. With
the growing powerlessness of the autonomous subject, inwardness consequently
became completely ideological, the mirage of an inner kingdom where the silent
majority are indemnified for what is denied them socially’ (Adorno
1970/1997:116 Aesthetic Theory)
‘Immediately back of the mimetic taboo stands a
sexual one: Nothing should be moist; art becomes hygenic ... ‘ (Adorno
1970/1997:116 Aesthetic Theory)
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