One must have tradition in oneself, to hate it properly… It would be poor psychology to assume that exclusion arouses only hate and resentment; it arouses too a possessive, intolerant kind of love, and those whom repressive culture has held at a distance can easily enough become its most diehard defenders.

Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia

Julio Le Parc
Primeras modulaciones 2
2018

Alfred Stieglitz
Equivalent
1930

The banalization of nihilism ultimately culminates in nihilism's opposite: dogmatism – the unrelenting insistence upon one's own position, one's own point of view, immune to any sort of criticism or rational scrutiny. When we fully and happily dispatch with truth, what we gain is not pluralism, not toleration, but rather the absolutization of the dominant power structures of the culture to which we belong. Nihilism, once complete, leaves us with nothing but the set of currently existing social practices and beliefs; in the absence of anything else, these practices and beliefs become, for all intents and purpose, absolute.

Karen L. Carr, The Banalization of Nihilism

Pablo Picasso, The Bull, Lithograph Series, 1945