The postmodern Querfront

Elbe, Ingo

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“…As a consequence, individuals experience alienation as an unchangeable fact, fate even, as ‘the less of life remains, the greater the temptation for our consciousness to take the sparse and abrupt living remnants for the phenomenal absolute’ (Adorno, 1997: 375). The social origins of their suffering are forgotten and social relations appear ‘natural’, rendering the individual increasingly impotent and incapable of autonomous decision-making (Adorno, 2018: 452; Elbe, 2020: 84). Nevertheless, the individual experiences their alienated existence as a source of frustration and anger, but instead of directing the subsequent aggression towards the system causing it, it is directed at others, more vulnerable and marginalized, giving way to antisemitic, racist, and misogynist resentments (Adorno, 2018: 452; Tyner, 2022: 76).…”

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‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Kübler

2023

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In recent decades, social and cultural memories have been much discussed in human geography. In line with an increasing interest in the nexus between memory and social justice, this article theoretically investigates the political geographies of remembering and its emancipatory potential. Surveying recent literature on the topic, I argue for a more nuanced consideration of capitalist thought forms as generally hindering remembrance. To pin down this argument, I draw on Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics, stressing the all-encroaching totality of capitalist thought forms while adhering to the hope of overcoming them. While this perspective stresses how capitalist relations render remembrance precarious, it also enables us to conceptualize spontaneous, embodied moments of memory as acts of resistance against the dominance of these capitalist thought forms. Thus, this article introduces negative dialectics as an approach to consider how places of memory might challenge capitalist relations by circumventing the respective thought forms and transforming society through tenderness and solidarity between diverse people.

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Section: Obstructed Memories: the Implications Of Capitalist Thought ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

Kübler

2023

Environment and Planning F

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The postmodern Querfront

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‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

‘Suffering ought not to be’: Adorno on the dialectics of memory

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