Re: Adorno autonomously

[Ralph Dumain <rdumain@xxxxxxx>]

I'm sure you've had enough of me by now, but here's my two cents: this was
a great post.  There's one remark of especial importance ....

At 11:47 AM 6/2/99 +0000, L Spencer wrote:
>Few of us are in any position today to endorse whole-heartedly the
>positions adopted by Adorno on the relationship between high art
>and popular culture. On the one hand we have most of us grown up
>familiar with aspects of popular culture (including for some of
>us, non-European cultures) which were clearly strange, alien
>even threatening to Adorno.

This is an important point, one I thought of but neglected to develop
explicitly.  We've got a whole lot of experience behind us of developments
may of which postdate Adorno's lifeline.  We've had a chance to experience
the more creative developments in popular culture (in addition to the
godawful dreck) and have internalized them as well as the input we've
gotten from high culture influences, so we do have an advantage, being able
to incorporate a wider span of cultural experience.  My initial assertion
to this effect should not have been taken so controversially.  But enough
of me.