"What has become alien to men is the human component of culture, its closest part, which upholds them against the world. They make common cause with the world against themselves, and the most alienated condition of all, the omnipresence of commodities, their own conversion into appendages of machinery, is for them a mirage of closeness." -excerpt
"It is not man's lapse into luxurious indolence that is to be feared, but the savage spread of the social under the mask of universal nature, the collective as a blind fury of activity." -excerpt
"Only a humanity to whom death has become as indifferent as its members, that has itself died, can inflict it administratively on innumerable people." -excerpt
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Theodor Adorno
Verso, 2006
193 A241mi
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