Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 05:16:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Dennis R Redmond <dredmond-AT-OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>
Subject: Re: Food for Thought


On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Ralph Dumain wrote:

> understand the comment about global thinking, but I'd still like to know
> what you think the tools Adorno provides for this task and what is to be
> done with them.

Tools: the constellation, the conceptual cast, theories of non-identity,
theories of monopoly capitalism, and much else besides. Use: smashing the
system, by thinking beyond its boundaries.

> debating stuff written by or about him.  To have some intelligible idea of
> the overall shape of your project--where you are heading with it, why you
> think it is important--am I asking too much?

It starts with concepts of monopoly capitalism, then moves on to the 
multinational and, ultimately, the global level. There's also an
aesthetic analysis of William Burroughs, Heiner Mueller, and William
Gibson, focusing on their leading works in the 60s, 70s and 80s,
respectively. 

-- Dennis