The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture(newyorker.com)
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The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers
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> Above all, these figures present a model for thinking differently, and not in the glib sense touted by Steve Jobs. As the homogenization of culture proceeds apace, as the technology of surveillance hovers at the borders of our brains, such spaces are becoming rarer and more confined. I am haunted by a sentence from Virginia Woolf’s “The Waves”: “One cannot live outside the machine for more perhaps than half an hour.”