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The text we're gonna discuss is Adorno's (Patreon)

Published:
2026-03-06 04:28:13
Imported:
2026-10

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"O n the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening"

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ragadrop

When is it “due” Dawling?

Lisa Fevral

sunday, but you don't have to read it if you have no time, I'll explain the text!

Simonides

Hi, there was something that was difficult for me to understand, but I browser searched it and figured it out, so I'm putting it here in case it helps others. When he says "the end of prehistory" on the 2nd page of the pdf, I thought that didn't make sense because in classics, prehistory is the time before humans invented or used writing. But it turns out that in Marxism, basically now is prehistory and history won't begin until after capitalism.

Simonides

Okay here's another thing I needed to figure out. It's in the 13th page of the pdf. "All possible mold has been rubbed off the baseness" -- a weird statement. So even though I don't know German, I found the German original and did some online research. the word translated as "possible" can mean "possible" by itself, but when combined with the word meaning "all," the two words together mean "a whole bunch of" something the word translated as "mold" means "stench" or "mouldy smell" the word translated as "baseness" is a nonstandard word combining a suffix equivalent to "-ness" with an adjective meaning "despicable" or "vile" not only does the "rubbed off" part come from a verb that means "to sweep away," but the grammatical form of the verb is present passive, not past tense passive like in the translation. Furthermore German apparently uses the passive a lot more than English, so it may not be necessary to translate with passive. So this is perhaps saying, idk but It clears the air of a lot of musty stench surrounding despicable things, and it is legitimate to criticize the esthetic residue of an individuality that was long since wrested from individuals. Everything after the comma is from the translation in the pdf. I think that works.

Simonides

3rd explanatory note, page 14 of pdf: "mute effects of the brasses" are using music instrument tools called "mutes" that not only dampen but also change something else about the sound, idk more than that and I'm sick of researching for this essay lol RIP Lisa