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Translation: On genitality and the domination of nature

The following is a translation of one of the many discussions between Horkheimer and Adorno that led to the Dialectic of Enlightenment. Critical footnotes are all my own. Square brackets indicate either my clarifications or those of the German editors.  23 October…

Squirting, porn, and psychoanalysis

On the question of squirting/female ejaculation that has been doing the rounds since some research was published last week saying that it’s just pissing: these scientists are of course the same idiotic positivist lot who spend their lives trying to…

Still Ugly

When I think about the history of 20th century philosophy I am glad that the angel picture by Paul Klee that Walter Benjamin owned was not the one called “Engel, noch hässlich” [“Angel, still ugly”]. But it looks a bit…

A response from Prof. Lawrence Kramer

Today I received a response to my letter from the Editor of 19th-Century Music Journal about their publication of a rather dubious essay which centred on the charge that Adorno was attracted to the Nazis’ utopian project: Dear Jacob Bard-Rosenberg,    Thanks…

On Charlie Hebdo

Does anyone else reckon one of the big historical problems of the French Revolution was that it allowed those who repeated its mottos as if they had overcome history to believe also that they had overcome xenophobia and domination? If…

Elbow Communism: now in Greek

A little aphorism I wrote a while ago, ‘Elbow communism: a late night thought’, has just been translated into Greek by the αμφιφλοξ blog (where it is posted next to some poetry by the excellent Nikos Karouzos.) The translator tells me that…