Throughout his texts Adorno often talks about the disintegration and withering of experience; the marrow of experience being sucked out, and the dying of experience. This Benjamin kind of language is often used as an index for a general crisis of modern life.
I'm unsure what this means. I struggle with the conception of experience.
In an empiricist culture experience means unmediated sense perception of the individual subject. Empiricism has no understanding of the interdependency of subjects with each other and with the historical world; nor does it have a grasp of the historical nature of experience being shaped by economic busts and booms or major economic reforms to educational institutions that throw us out of work.
Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at July 1, 2005 10:53 PM | TrackBack