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Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, And A Path Backward Through Hegel

I've been reading Benjamin, Adorno, and Horkheimer, and the more I do the more I realize how much of what they're saying comes from conversations with the thinkers before them. It feels like walking into a room where everyone’s already mid conversation. This deep dive is my way of tracing those voices backward. I want to understand where ideas come from, how they evolve across time, and what they say about art, memory, and what it means to create something that feels alive.
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A Current Thought

A current thought while exploring Benjamin's work and how it applies to the social media age. 
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The Aura of You or: what happens when we flatten ourselves to fit the feed

Jeff Richardson
I wrote “The Aura of You or: what happens when we flatten ourselves to fit the feed” as a way of processing Benjamin’s idea of aura through what I’ve been building with Lavish. It isn’t a conclusion, just a note in progress. This is more a snapshot of how I’m thinking at the moment about presence and technology before I go deeper into Hegel, Adorno, and the rest.
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The aura and the copy

Exploring what Benjamin called the aura. This section pulls together several resources.  Any notes will probably change as I keep reading Adorno, Horkheimer, and Hegel, and beyond, but this is where I start. 

The Critique and the Circle

This was the point where I felt like I needed to read backward. To understand Dialectic of Enlightenment, I had to start with Hegel, and to understand Hegel, I found myself tracing the chain back to Descartes. It’s a strange loop, but the farther back I go,  my hope is that arguments will start to make sense.

Back to the Beginning

After trying to dive into these works and realizing how much I was struggling to follow the language and references, I decided to go back to the beginning. It wasn’t about chasing answers anymore but about hearing the context. The first parts of the conversation that shaped everything that came later. I wanted to understand how these thinkers built the foundation that Adorno, Horkheimer, and Benjamin were pushing against.
Book On the shelf

An Introduction to Hegel

Howard P. Kainz
On the flight to my one-year anniversary trip with my wife, I kept thinking about how often Hegel’s name came up in everything I’d been reading. It felt like every argument eventually circled back to him. While my wife and I were walking through Boston, I stumbled into a small bookshop and saw a little green book on the shelf. 
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The Turn to Descartes

I only knew a little about Descartes before this. There is that famous line “I think, therefore I am,” and a foggy memory that he created the Cartesian system used in math. I wasn’t sure how any of that could connect to Adorno or Benjamin. But as I started reading, I began to see how much of modern thought begins with him. Descartes’ drive to build everything from a single point of certainty... to pure reason. 
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