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Benjamin, Adorno, Horkheimer, And A Path Backward Through Hegel
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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.
Internal
Internal
The Aura of You
or: what happens when we flatten ourselves to fit the feed
by 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.
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.
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Other
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (Full Pdf)
This is the actual text that Benjamin wrote.
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Video
Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
by Then & Now
Then and now is one of my favorite philosophy channels. This is a great breakdown of the concept in a very short form.
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Video
Walter Benjamin: The First Theory of New Media
by Carefree Wandering
No note added.
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Video
Walter Benjamin on Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility
by Overthink Podcast
No note added.
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.
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Other
Dialectics of Enlightenment (Full PDF)
The actual work from Adorno and Horkheimer.
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Video
Adorno and Horkheimer: Dialectic of Enlightenment - Part I
by Then & Now
Part one of the video essay exploring the ideas from the Dialectic of Enlightenment from youtube channel Then & Now.
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Video
Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Culture Industry - Part II
by Then & Now
Part two of the video essay exploring the ideas from the Dialectic of Enlightenment from youtube channel Then & Now.
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Video
Dialectic of Enlightenment by Horkheimer & Adorno Close Reading (Playlist)
by Cherni Ismail
28 Video breakdown of this essay.
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.
Internal
Internal
An Introduction to Hegel
by 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.
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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PHILOSOPHY - René Descartes
by The School of Life
A quick video on Descartes.
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Video
Descartes' Meditations (Playlist)
by Jeffrey Kaplan
No note added.
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Other
Descartes (Playlist Resources)
A treasure trove. This page contains all the meditations and notes inside the pdfs. It's fantastic.
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