Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I don’t know enough about their references to say anything, but the strain of “The Frankfurt School and French Philosophers are CIA plants and are a pure diversion” is kinda short sighted. Yeah they’re western navel gazing academics and carry that baggage, but they do as a cannon provide useful lenses through which to analyze neoliberal capitalism. Adorno’s schtick as I recall was being against positivism - i.e. hyper-rationalist thinking that ditches any kind of broader sense of the metaphysical social subject. Like hyperfocusing on the “materialism” in “dialectical materialism”, missing the forrest for the trees in reading Marx.
Something about this rubs me the wrong way. I don’t know enough about their references to say anything, but the strain of “The Frankfurt School and French Philosophers are CIA plants and are a pure diversion” is kinda short sighted. Yeah they’re western navel gazing academics and carry that baggage, but they do as a cannon provide useful lenses through which to analyze neoliberal capitalism. Adorno’s schtick as I recall was being against positivism - i.e. hyper-rationalist thinking that ditches any kind of broader sense of the metaphysical social subject. Like hyperfocusing on the “materialism” in “dialectical materialism”, missing the forrest for the trees in reading Marx.