For those of you interested in reading up on Adorno post our Paul Chan visit, a surprising - and humorous - way in might be to start here. These are punk tracks by Brian Joseph Davis, a Canadian artist, who has used phrases from Adorno's Minima Moralia as inspiration for his music.
Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschÃĪdigten Leben (Minima Moralia: Reflections From Damaged Life) is a seminal text in Critical Theory. Adorno wrote it during World War II, while he lived as an exile in America.
For those of you who understand German, there are some great clips of Adorno online here and here (this one is especially relevant as it is Adorno on Beckett, which dovetails nicely with P. Chan). Click here to hear P. Chan reading Adorno's Post Festum.
Also, click here to read a great interview in the Brooklyn Rail with Robert Hullot-Kentor, an Adorno translator and friend of P. Chan's on Adorno's idea of Verblendungszusammenhang -- the "web of unknowing" -- among other concepts.
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