1. This @alexrossmusic piece on Adorno & Benjamin is superb. Doesn't mean I'll refrain from quibbling with it: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/09/15/naysayers …
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2. Contra Ross, Adorno's writings on Jazz don't reflect his attitude towards black culture. Adorno was writing about white imitation jazz
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3. Not accurate to refer to Frankfurt Schools "indifference" to race (although indifference to gender is a fair charge).
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4. If anti-Semitism is form of racism (it is!) then Frankfurt School made huge contribution to anti-racism: the Authoritarian Personality
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5. Early 20th century progressives just saw racism as ignorance or rooted in economic exploitation. Adorno brought in psychology of racism
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6. Marcuse's mentorship of Angela Davis worth thinking about with regards to Frankfurt School and race/gender.
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7. Would've liked to seen some discussion of Ernst Bloch, arguably the middle ground between Adorno & Benjamin.
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8. Fredric Jameson could've also been discussed more as offering a workable synthesis of Adorno & Benjamin.
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9. Part of the real genius of Jameson is he combines Adorno-esque stringency with a Benjamian search for utopian potential in pop culture
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