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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Adorno: the end of ethical life « Previous | |Next »
September 6, 2005

I've been watching television images of a flooded New Orleans. Large parts of it look like as if it is a banana republic in the Third World. Here a public ethical life whose elements make us ethical subjects has broken down, and everyday life has become a Hobbesian state of nature.

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Tony Auth

Swat teams are invading their own city and they having to fight to regain control of the hospitals. The state could not proceeed with the rescue until the city had been secured.

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Jeff Parker

Not even the Adorno retreat to the deformed personal or intimate sphere is possible in many parts of the city. That too has disintegrated.

New Orleans highlights the truth of Adorno's argument about the rationality deficit in our ethical life.

Where to from there?

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 12:05 AM | | Comments (1)
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I like your point about this very much. It's disgusting. I write for Clean Sheets.com, sometimes. I thought it was interesting that you linked to it with all the other fab things you've got going on in here.

ps: I loathe sadomasochism, and what it is doing to people's minds in the web, by viewing it.

then again, I have a masters in depth psychology.
for instance, I feel that sites like this should be shut down. www.insex.com.

--from one who can appreciate the philosophers of old, say Plotinus? The world has lost beauty, and soul.as you illustrate so perfectly in the first cartoon. I shall be back to see all the things going on here.

valentine bonnaire/adrianna de la rosa
www.velvetbabe.com