Fascism is itself less 'ideological', in so far as it openly proclaims the principle of domination that is elsewhere concealed.
Theodor AdornoAn emancipated society, on the other hand, would not be a unitary state, but the realization of universality in the reconciliation of differences.
Theodor AdornoEverything about art has become problematic; its inner life, its relation to society, even its right to exist.
Theodor AdornoThe body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.
Theodor Adorno