Any other writers as wide-ranging as this man? Marx, religion, ADD in art appreciation, weed, children's books. Easily the best thing associated with the Frankfurt school.
his leskov essay is perfect
>>7799277
Art in the age of mechanical reproduction is superb
>>7799277
>Easily the best thing associated with the Frankfurt school
>not Kracauer
>>7799960
Literary who?
>Benjamin
>literally based 99% of everything he wrote off his deluded belief in creationism and Jew-voodoo
>"good"
I beg to differ.
>>7799947
winrar. unpacking my library is a nice essay of his too. plus, he smoked a pipe. classy dude.
>frankfurt school
he's not an expert of suicide or else he would've committed it already
>>7800162
He actually did that.
>>7800172
Suicide is prohibited in Jewish Law.
You literally forfeit your place in the World to Come.
>>7799960
thanks for this
>>7800162
dude, he killed himself while trying to flee from the nazis.
I've read part of The Principle of Hope. I may disagree with the overall philosophy of Bloch, but his writing is really great. Very poetic.
Also, another pipe smoker. Classy.
>>7800234
There literally isn't a 'World to Come' in Jewish theology.
>>7800274
Touch my circumcision and I'll show you a world of cum.
>>7800279
*chortle*
Zizek liked him.
>>7800388
forgot the link to benjamin's essay
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~rfrank/class_web/ES-200A/Week%202/benjamin_ps.pdf
>tfw you'll never read the finished Arcades Project
just kill me desu
His translation "theory" was some of the most misguided shit I've ever had to read, though. Jesus. Sort of burned from the rest of his stuff.
>>7799277
>Easily the best thing associated with the Frankfurt school.
LaughingAdorno.gif
>>7799625
storytelling has indeed deteriorated with time. i wonder what benjamin would think of modern-day lit.
http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/fms/Colleges/College%20of%20Humanities%20and%20Social%20Sciences/EMS/Readings/139.105/Additional/The%20Storyteller%20-%20Walter%20Benjamin.pdf
>>7800404
i feel and share your pain.
guys, /pol/ told me these Frankfurt guys created the fall of the West and forced white women to breed with blacks??
can you confirm or deny?
>>7800457
That's not Adorno TÜBJORNEST
Cultural Marxism = pure evil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0KwdtCmvWg
![benjamin05[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/NtEvy8u.jpg "benjamin05[1].jpg")
What was he studying here?
>>7800475
Is that video satire?
![Bn7cP8LIUAEziDu[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/moLuaWZ.jpg "Bn7cP8LIUAEziDu[1].jpg")
>>7800411
>Adorno
>>7800475
This is, by far, the BEST version of the Frankfurt School conspiracy theory.
>>7800497
Not sure about the video, but our an hero'd commie Jew mystic was pretty open about the influence of Jewish theology and kabbalah on his work.
>>7800475
For those who don't subscribe to the theory of "Le Cultural Marxism" (no less legitimate than 'Patriarchy' and other dumbass concepts), then how do you account for the subversion and/or erosion of cultural norms/traditions/ideals?
Most people try to blame Capitalism; which is fair. After all, these things get in the way of a world where there are only consumers and producers; and where there are no meaningful differences between people in certain parts of the land. The perfect marketplace, essentially.
Are they solely to blame, however? I'm not convinced. There are those, and they're almost always found on the 'Left', who want to erode/subvert these things for numerous reasons; most typically, pithy utopian idealism that tends to revolve around "one world" drivel and the ultimately Marxist ideal of *international* Socialism/Communism.
But I'm rambling. I'm happy to admit there are multiple camps responsible; as opposed to those who always try to find a singular culprit, be it the 'Jews' or otherwise.
>>7800526
Yeah, that's what makes his writings so brilliant
As for conspiracy theories, not so much
>>7799989
>jew-voodoo
>deluded
>>7800529
It is entirely the result of capitalism. Having a multi-ethnic and non-gendered workforce to help ensure the future accumulation of capital. Hence you get political correctness, multiculturalism, etc.
>>7800542
>Having a multi-ethnic and non-gendered workforce to help ensure the future accumulation of capital. Hence you get political correctness, multiculturalism, etc.
Then why do some of Capitalism's fiercest enemies just happen to find common ground with the Capitalists on these issues?
They clearly don't have the same motivation; just common enemies. Both play a large part in this; as opposed to Capitalists being the driving force, and multiculti/PC-promoters riding on the coattails.
>>7800529
>THE JEWS -- WHO ARE THE ONES WHO RUTHLESSLY EXPLOIT THE PEOPLE AND BENEFIT FROM THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM -- ARE THE ONES WHO WANT TO SUBVERT THIS SYSTEM AND IMPLEMENT COMMUNISM
>>7800548
>Then why do some of Capitalism's fiercest enemies just happen to find common ground with the Capitalists on these issues?
like who?
>>7800566
What do you mean?
I'm not saying they find common ground as in they ally themselves with one another; but rather, that they have the same enemies.
That is, general social homogeneity, national sovereignty, gender/social roles, etc.
It's obvious why the Capitalists hate these things; how do you account for the vehement Anti-Capitalists who hate them?
>>7800526
>was pretty open about the influence of Jewish theology and kabbalah on his work.
Is there any proof of this beyond a few writings by Gershom Scholem where he claims Benjamin was super Jewish?
>>7800577
>how do you account for the vehement Anti-Capitalists who hate them?
Like who?
>>7800577
>how do you account for the vehement Anti-Capitalists who hate them?
Because identity politics is vehemently anti-Marxist
>>7800581
>>7800605
And what is identity politics, then?
>>7800609
bourgeois as fuck
>>7800612
Well, I know Marxists/etc would like to hand-wave away the whole idea of an identity that isn't derived from class struggle; but reality doesn't work that way.
>>7800529
That cultural norms have been subverted before Marxism and doing so is a very human, even traditional, thing to do.
>>7800642
>being this entrenched in capitalist ideology
back to the idpol places like /pol/ or /tumblr/, sweetheart
>>7800642
That's fine, it still doesn't mean recent identity politics is Marxist
>>7800648
Marxists -- who are interested in the workers seizing the means of production -- think they can achieve liberation by changing pronouns and general speech acts.
t. Marx
>>7800538
kaballah isn't scientific nor materialist.
>>7800609
the politics of identity notes the illusory nature of identity itself. it shows the destructive tendencies that can happen and do occur in social system when people divide each other by the differences that identity generates.
>>7800475
>cultural marxism
Doesn't exist.
>>7800788
then how do you explain black people and white people in the same films???
protip: without jews, there would be no sex in movies and blacks wouldn't be in star wars
:^)
>>7800581
There is none. Most of Benjamin's "mystical" concepts were influenced by German Romanticism and Surrealism, not Judaism.
>>7800489
The arcades
>>7800825
without jews, we wouldn't have bibles, or americas, or even #dankmemes420blazeit
>:^)
>:^)
>:^)
What was my point again?
>>7800852
Pretty much. He was as influenced by Judaism as Borges was.
He uses a couple things as tropes, but mostly in the mystic Orientalist sense.
>>7799960
Oh anon, I love you.
>>7800648
Not marxist doesn't mean contradictory to Marxism.
everybody knows critical theory is just a racket for the jews
>>7800388
>"as we all know"
*chortle*
>>7800852
I disagree. The concept of "messianic time" in Theses toward a Philosophy of History (which is glorious) is very informed by Elijah.
>>7799277
Don't forget flaneurism, lover.
>>7801250
>The concept of "messianic time" in Theses toward a Philosophy of History (which is glorious) is very informed by Elijah.
Do elaborate.
Also, pic related explains some of the Jewish themes in Benjamin's writings.
>>7800475
Is that poster in the pic the same guy who said fascism originated in German satanism or something? Because he's fucking retarded.
>>7801356
Not sure to be honest, but I do see him on /pol/ sometimes. He's an Orthodox Jew who insists that Benjamin and the other Franks weren't "real" Jews as they were Marxists.
>German satanism
I take it you're talking about the Thule Society?
>>7800449
>western culture is so weak that it can be taken down by a bunch of jews in Germany
lel
>>7801371
And whose most prominent member was trying to defend it.
>>7801416
Even Marcuse hated leftist political art.
The whole conspiracy is downright laughable.
>>7801371
I'm noticing these conspiracies in mainstream conservative circles now.
>pic related
>>7800475
That Walsh guy sounds like a real he-man.
Also:
>blaming Adorno for Saul Alinsky
Where the fuck do they come up with this shit?
>>7800449
they critique the same things they were and use some of the same ideas as well. if they actually read their works i think they'd agree with at least some of it
>"i'm a marxist and historical materialist guise i swear!"
>"muh torah is perfect and marxism needs to go back to the laws of moses so it snaps out of its economism and be redemptive again. moshiach now!"
>>7801443
I love it when people have arguments so weak that they have to add their academic title on the cover to raise credence
Pretty aggressive chess player, bring out his queen before developing any of his other pieces. Wonder if him or Brecht won.
>>7801822
*bringing
>>7801822
Full pics.
>>7801830
gracias, senor, gracias. brecht looks like he has better pawn structure in that last pic.
>>7801443
>I'm noticing these conspiracies in mainstream conservative circles now.
It felt like they mentioned it the the newest Coen brothers movie.
>>7801422
If I were to attribute Adorno's Jazz essay to Evola /pol/ would probably eat it up. If they were to try and understand Marxism (they wouldn't have to agree with all of it) they could probably utilize some of The Frankfurt School's ideas.
>>7800499
I actually like Adorno's music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Tc4mXodrI
>>7801842
Even Benjamin's religious critique of progress (later appropriated by Horkheimer and Adorno in Dialectic of Enlightenment and seen to a lesser extent in One-Dimensional Man by Marcuse) is something modern social conservatives could get behind.
If anything, the real theorists to blame for ess-jay-double-yoos are the French post-structuralists, namely Foucault, Althusser, Lacan...
>>7801848
>If anything, the real theorists to blame for ess-jay-double-yoos are the French post-structuralists, namely Foucault, Althusser, Lacan...
I suppose you could implicate Marcuse if you wanted to go after a few of his students, but that's really the most you could do.
>>7802012
I've heard Marcuse get blamed for "neocons" for some reason.
In all fairness, I'd say the New Left had the advantage in that it could look to tangible anti-capitalist models for inspiration. You ask your average social justice liberal about what they wish to obtain, and they can't tell you, or they'll respond with something very vague like "I want society to be inclusive".
>>7801345
"The puppet called “historical materialism” is always supposed to win. It can do this with no further ado against any opponent, so long as it employs the services of theology, which as everyone knows is small and ugly and must be kept out of sight." - from Thesis I
"For the Messiah arrives not merely as the Redeemer; he also arrives as the vanquisher of the Anti-Christ. The only writer of history with the gift of setting alight the sparks of hope in the past, is the one who is convinced of this: that not even the dead will be safe from the enemy, if he is victorious. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious." - From Thesis VI
Benjamin thought history was not about telling the present how the past really was (which is the job of the mere chronicler), but about sneaking up on the "dialectical image," which is difficult because the past "whizzes by." We must use this image to take control of the memory in a moment of danger (all of them) of which it is an impression and use it to direct events as they unfold into the future.
In the Passover feast, there is a moment when the participants open the door of the house so that Elijah, the future messiah of Judaism can enter the house and sit down. This welcoming of redemption happens in the context of a oral recounting of a collective memory: the Egyptian captivity. Such it is with historical materialism. It must use the dialectical image to open a place for the future redemption of humans from their bondage, a redemption which would not only bring "the kingdom of heaven" to earth, but would also redeem all moments of human life, ever. This rupture of futurity into a re-working of the past is what Benjamin means by "messianic time."
>>7800529
The erosion of tradition and difference is a compounding of both global capitalism and modernity. See Alain de Benoist
>>7800577
Merely oppurtunity. Many so called fasicsts like Dugin have also called for genuine cooperation between the far left and far right in opposition to capitalism
>>7801219
it does when plenty of it is written as a reaction to marx and explicitly rejects marx's teleology, his base/supercstrucute idea, his dialectical materialism etc etc
>>7799277
He has a really interesting, though antiquated in analysis, totalizing essay on Kafka.
>>7802827
Most of the New Left position could be described as Post-Marxism
>>7802827
What writings do you have in mind?
>>7802790
This is beautiful. merci
As well, to my knowledge there is a teaching in traditional Judaism which is very similar to the critique of progress Benjamin makes: namely, that society becomes spiritually degenerated over time despite technological and scientific progress.
>>7800475
The facts stated in this post are true.
The conclusions (i.e. Benjamin and the Frankfurt School were all a bunch of satanists) is bullshit.
>>7799277
Benjamin is the best thing to happen in general
>>7800404
I think about this all the time.
>>7804091
>literally filled his writings with tikkun motifs, i.e. putting together fragments to form a completed whole
>openly referenced the shevirat ha-keilim ("shattering of the vessels" in the lurianic kabbalah) in task of the translator
>openly talked about jewish messianism in early essays
>openly told horkheimer his works were theologically inspired
>asked scholem to provide him with info on kabbalah and occultism
>"he wasn't really into jewish shit guize"
Until someone can provide me with evidence to the contrary I'm willing to believe the interpretations of Benjamin's writings as theological and mystical are correct.
>>7799947
That text is so spot on and essential to understand modernism I actually ended not enjoying it so much after I've read it for 4 or so classes
>>7799989
>Implying this board doesn't idolize tons of religious philosophers much more preachy than Benjamin
>Implying kabbalah had that much influence in his texts anyway
Benjamin would be a HIT with neotraditionalist muh europa fags - just like Adorno would be with /pol/ in general - if /pol/lacks weren't so anal about MUH CULTURAL MARXISM CONSPIRACY
>>7801345
>Michael Löwry
I had no idea people here knew about him. He's pretty good tbqh, and he shows how Benjamin's relationship with judaism was one of love, but also one of struggle.
>>7804435
>>Implying kabbalah had that much influence in his texts anyway
oh boi
>>7803867
>This is beautiful. merci
That's the best part about Benjamin. Like Nietzsche, he was a philosopher, but he was also a poet. This fragment of the thesis about a painting Paul Klee gave him is particularly beautiful:
A Klee painting named Angelus Novus shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
>>7804452
Holy shit, did you even read what you've posted? It's saying exactly what some other anon said ITT, his relation to judaism was mostly Scholem trying to distance his work from judaic mysticism
>>7804435
>"return 2 muh torah"
>not preachy
>>7804480
There are other books which do link Benjamin's works to Jewish theology which don't parrot Scholem's crap.
>>7799989
All religious texts are rooted in kaballah you hat tipping Mongol.
>>7800489
How to infiltrate Western culture.
>>7800529
Marx and Marxist tried to describe the process of what was / was going happening to the world because of Capitalism NOT saying "ruin the west by doing dis shit".
The hyper-commodification of society under Late-Capitalism is whats ruining the West; not some spooky conspiracy hatched in American Ivy leagues.
Capitalism requires everything be subverted to a commodified culture to feed Capitalism insatiable appetite for profit.
As Marx said:
>"All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
>>7800274
Olam HaBa is a very big concept in Judaism, in particular with Chassidic sects.
>>7800852
>>7801204
>>7804435
>>7805717
Theologie und Politik: Walter Benjamin und ein Paradigma der Moderne is a good overview of the Jewish/kabbalist/messianic concepts in Benjamin's work, albeit it is all auf Deutsch.
>>7806215
Even SJWs are much more a product of capitalism than they are of Marxism. I'd go so far as to say they're the result of the death of Marxism in the West.
Even Benjamin and Adorno haven't been relevant in academia since 1976. Everything in the humanities centers around Lacan and Foucault.
>>7804480
>his relation to judaism was mostly Scholem trying to distance his work from judaic mysticism
Don't you mean "Marxism?"
>>7799989
Kabbalah is closer to Hinduism than Voodun FYI.
bumpiddibump
>>7806231
>Even Benjamin and Adorno haven't been relevant in academia since 1976. Everything in the humanities centers around Lacan and Foucault.
You're right about Adorno and Foucault. Wrong about Lacan and Benjamin.
>>7808827
>Lacan and Benjamin are still relevant
In what ways?
>>7808827
We read Foucault in several classes, Benjamin only once, and nothing by Lacan.
>>7810041
Which ideas of Benjamin's are necessarily big in the humanities though, aside from his Work of Art essay?
>>7800529
>There are those, and they're almost always found on the 'Left', who want to erode/subvert these things for numerous reasons; most typically, pithy utopian idealism that tends to revolve around "one world" drivel and the ultimately Marxist ideal of *international* Socialism/Communism.
thats just the inevitable continuation of the original values of classical liberalism and the french revolution though.
the only relation to marxism is that marxism is also a result of liberalism.
>>7801848
>If anything, the real theorists to blame for ess-jay-double-yoos are the French post-structuralists, namely Foucault, Althusser, Lacan...
Even then, it was more of a big misreading of their work that resulted in SJWisms (which isnt really surprising really)
>>7810242
>misreading of their work
How were they misread exactly?
>>7804435
>>Implying kabbalah had that much influence in his texts anyway
Shit, next thing you'll tell me Nietzsche wasn't really an influence on Foucault, or Lacan wasn't really Freudian.
Also, Derrida was influenced by kabbalah as well.
>associated with the Frankfurt school
Dropped
Benjamin is a perfect example of why Marxists should reject religion and theology ENTIRELY.
When shit hit the fan, his religious mythologies meant more to him than Marxism.
The same thing is true with Liberation Theology. Christian "communists" fight for a non-existent heaven based on out-of-context Bible quotes.
>>7811666
the liberation theology passages aren't used out of context unless you're reading the bible literally like a retard
>>7811688
Jesus was actually a jerk who had no issue with slavery.
>>7811997
render unto whitey and so on
>>7800234
Irony is such a hilarious thing.
>>7813126
"Christian anarchist" is an oxymoron.
>>7800127
http://art.yale.edu/file_columns/0000/2138/benjamin.pdf
