Aesthetics and Politics

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• Consequently the movement of its individual components towards autonomy is an objective fact of the capitalist economic system. Nevertheless this autonomy constitutes only one part of the overall process. The underlying unity, the totality, all of whose parts are objectively interrelated, manifests itself most strikingly in the fact of crisis. Marx gives the following analysis of the process in which the constituent elements necessarily achieve independence: 'Since they do in fact belong together, the process in which the constituent elements necessarily achieve independence: "Since they do in fact belong together, the process by means of which the complementary parts become independent must inevitably appear violent and destructive. The phenomenon in which their unity, the unity of discre... (查看原文)

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• Kafka's strengths and weaknesses were bound up with this way of seeing the world-his artistic value, but also his feebleness in many respects. He was a Jew-boy-one could just as well coin the term ‘Aryan boy’ -a sorry, dismal creature, a mere bubble on the glittering quagmire of Prague cultural life, nothing more. Yet there were also some very interesting sides to him. One could bring these out. One might imagine a conversation between Lao Tzu and his disciple Kafka. Lao Tzu says: And so, Disciple Kafka, you have conceived a horror of the organizations, property relations and economic forms within which you live? -Yes. -You can’t find your way about them any more? -No. -A share certificate fills you with dread? -Yes. '-.And so now you're looking for a leader you can hold on to, Disciple Ka... (查看原文)

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