Newness only becomes mere evil in its totalitarian format, where all the tension between individual and society, that once gave rise to the category of the new, is dissipated. Today the appeal to newness, of no matter what kind, provided only that it is archaic enough, has become universal, the omnipresent medium of false mimesis. The decomposition of the subject is consummated in his self-abandonment to an ever-changing sameness.
Theodor AdornoArt as a whole is a riddle. Another way of putting this is to say that art expresses something while at the same time hiding it.
Theodor AdornoThe most powerful person is he who is able to do least himself and burden others most with the things for which he lends his name and pockets the credit.
Theodor AdornoThe inadequacy of the purely purpose-oriented form is revealed for what it is-a monotonous, impoverished boring practicality.
Theodor Adorno