In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.

Kitsch evokes a future utopia looking back at a past that is selectively (mis)remembered, thereby helping to stabilize the present toward which kitsch is otherwise deeply anatagonistic.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

The dialectic cannot stop short before the conceptsof health and sickness, nor indeed before their siblings reason and unreason.

Exuberant health is always, as such, sickness also.

Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.

In his state of complete powerlessness the individual perceives the time he has left to live as a brief reprieve.