There are no more ideologies in the authentic sense of false consciousness, only advertisements for the world through its duplication and the provocative lie which does not seek belief but commands silence.
Theodor AdornoWhen I made my theoretical model, I could not have guessed that people would try to realise it with Molotov cocktails.
Theodor AdornoDialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
Theodor AdornoProletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.
Theodor AdornoThe aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.
Theodor Adorno