Re: Adorno on TV

[S Mure <panic@xxxxxxxxxx>]

In article <Pine.SUN.3.96.990607201726.11077A-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Matthew Levy <mlevy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
> I feel
>> physically ill when sat in front of a music video, so I do it only about
>> once a year. When I do, I feel reduced exactly to the status of one Of
>> Skinner's poor rats, responding in spasmodic mental jerks to the
>> overwhelming assault on my senses - the desperate fast cutting, the
>> techniques of disorientation... These videos are a war on consciousness.
>> (I think this is a banal observation, to be honest.)
>
>yes, very banal.

I think I want to end there, on a point of agreement.

Two Frankfurt School references: 'The Genesis of Stupidity' at the end
of 'Dialectic of Enlightenment' and the piece in 'Minima Moralia' which
I cannot find, about not wanting to be right in an argument. (I would be
very grateful if someone could tell me the page number.) These are not
quotations of authority, just more things to think about.
--
Simon Smith