Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Eric, Habermas

In habermas's essay, he quoted Adorno: saying, "It is now taken for grandted that nothing which concerns art can be taken for granted anymore: neither art itself, nor art in its relationship to the whole, nor even the right of art to exist.'
This phrase and Habermas's following meditation on fiction and praxis triggered an arc of thought within my own mind.

Habermas discusses undertakings which attempted to destroy all the rules. stick it to the man. He declares them "nonsense experiments." But in my mind, they seem to be more than nonsense. They seem to be so pregnant with hypocracy that they should explode.

Surrealists and Marxists sought to disolve structures, bring about some form of equality. This, however, required them to build their own structures. Structures of any kind negate true equality: which is, the absence of differences. we would be unjust, if we begrudged these groups for their persecutions. the very nature of our existence is dictated by the restrictions of our senses, persecuted by the way we experience it. Objective equality is an aspect that, like perfection, can only be attained in truely acthonic entities, those unbound by the natural restrictions of reality.

1 comment:

Notorious Dr. Rog said...

an interesting idea--I'd love to have seen more elaboration on your response