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“All my means are sane, my motive and my object mad.”

Ends Madness Sanity Efficiency Modernity Allegory Modern Age Means Instrumental Rationality

Book:Moby-Dick or, The Whale

Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“[Both high art and industrially produced consumer art] bear the stigmata of capitalism, both contain elements of change. Both are torn halves of an integral freedom, to which, however, they do not add up.”

Art Freedom Capitalism Emancipation Popular Culture Postmodernism Instrumental Rationality

Book:Aesthetics and Politics

Source: Aesthetics and Politics

“Paradoxically, a society that, in the face of starvation in great areas of the world, allows a large part of its machinery to stand idle, that shelves many important inventions, and that devotes innumerable working hours to moronic advertising and to the production of instruments of destruction—a society in which these luxuries are inherent has made usefulness its gospel.”

Instrumental Rationality Instrumental Reason Instruments Of Destruction

Book:Eclipse of Reason

Source: Eclipse of Reason