Der Fall Faustus: Continuity and Displacement in Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno and Thomas Mann’s Californian Exile

Doing Violence to ‘Violence’: Theodor W. Adorno and the Responsibilities of Music Criticism

This study examines the intersections of music, philosophy and the use of metaphors and other linguistic expressions relating to violence in the writings of Theodor W. Adorno. After discussing contemporary theories of metaphor, it examines Adorno's comparisons of the music of Schoenberg and Stravinsky in his 1948 volume Philosophie der neuen Musik, the posthumous collection of fragments for his...

Readings of Adorno with Tarkovsky and Haneke

New Media Art and a Contemporary Revision of the Term 'Cultural Industry' of Theodor Adorno

This article examines some of the ideas that Theodor Adorno elucidated around the term “cultural industry”, compiling mainly the ideas published in the text “Aesthetic Theory” of 1970. The term “cultural industry” is also contextualized in the article with the reflections that Adorno previously exposed since 1947. Concerning the relation between art and autonomy the ideas of Adorno offer elemen...

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse

A History of Electronic Music Pioneers

Note: This essay was written for the catalog that accompanied the exhibition: Eigenwelt der Apparatewelt: Pioneers of Electronic Art. The exhibition was presented as part of Ars Electronica 1992, in Linz, Austria and was curated by Woody and Steina Vasulka. It consisted of a comprehensive, interactive display of vintage electronic tools for video and audio generation/processing from the 1960's ...