Rather, knowledge comes to us through a network of prejudices, opinions, innervations, self-corrections, presuppositions and exaggerations, in short through the dense, firmly founded but by no means uniformly transparent medium of experience.
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
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We shudder at the brutalization of life, but lacking any objectively binding morality we are forced at every step into actions and words, into calculations that are by humane standards barbaric, and even by the dubious values of good society, tactless.
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
Theodor W. Adorno, Minima Moralia
What haunts is not that which is gone, it is that which was expected to come but whose condition of arrival has been foreclosed, and the ghost is an advocate of the promised future that was unrightfully canceled when the past was destroyed.
Sadeq Rahimi, The Hauntology of Everyday Life
Sadeq Rahimi, The Hauntology of Everyday Life
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